When Loved Ones Die Quotes

#1. When loved ones die, people always say, "Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy." I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.

Esther Earl

#2. I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth, to defend their families. Yet they stood mute and allowed their loved ones to die. I judged them harshly in my heart for that.

Kirby Crow

#3. How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity - as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.

Georges Bernanos

#4. My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#5. Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#6. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Anonymous

#7. The God who loved us enough to die for us when we cared nothing for him is not about to shortchange us in life.

Paul E. Little

#8. If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

Norman Vincent Peale

#10. I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

Brian Welch

#11. I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. We don't lose our loved ones when they die. We gain guardian angels. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama

Tanya Masse

#13. Yes my love, because Eden, I have loved you avidly from the first moment I saw you and I will love you completely with all that I am until the day I die.

Rachel Higginson

#14. I have this tremendous energy. I just loved and love life. I love it today. I never want to die.

Jayne Meadows

#15. Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we know we haven't loved enough.

Louise Carey

#16. He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

Rachel Ward

#17. They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#18. My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live
to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love
loved am I!

Charlotte Bronte