402 Quotes About Losing A Loved One And Coping

Quotes about losing a loved one might be exactly what you need in your time of loss and suffering.

Grief is a powerful emotion that can leave us feeling lost and alone.

It’s a feeling that’s been explored in countless books, movies, and songs.

Whether it’s a sudden loss or a long-term illness, the death of a loved one can be one of the most difficult experiences in life.

In the movie The Lion King, Simba experiences the loss of his father, Mufasa, and must learn to navigate life without him.

Like Simba, many of us turn to quotes to help us cope with the pain of losing someone we love.

Let us know which of these quotes resonated most with you in the comment section below.

What are the benefits of reading these quotes about losing a loved one?

Losing a loved one is never easy, but hopefully, these meaningful words can help you.

They might:

• Help you move past your hurt to celebrate the life that’s recently been lost
• Remind you that you are not alone in your pain
• Bring you some comfort and perspective
• Help you find the words to offer your condolences

Sadly, losing a loved one is a universal pain we have all felt or will feel at some point.

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Powerful Quotes About Losing a Loved One and Coping

1. “All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”
― Michael McDowell

2. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” ― Jack Thorne

3. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

4. “Remember that people are only guests in your story – the same way you are only a guest in theirs – so make the chapters worth reading.” ― Lauren Klarfeld

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5. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell

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6. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown

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7. “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.”– Anne L. de Stael

8. “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”– Kahlil Gibran

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9. “Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.”– Sir Walter Scott

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10. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” ― Rob Liano

It is one of the worst things a person can experience in life.

Though death happens a lot in life, it’s still hard to deal with.

Getting through the loss of a loved one takes time and everyone’s journey to healing is unique.

Everyone is different and sometimes the journey can seem more than we can bear.

When this happens, we should remember to be grateful for the time we spent with our loved ones and know that they’re in a better place.

Even though losing a loved one is never easy, the right support and guidance can help you get through it.

Life must continue, and you will grow from the loss and learn to live with it.

Here are some uplifting, sympathetic, and inspirational quotes about losing a loved one to help you cope.

Quotes about losing a loved one to help us move on

11. “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.”—Elizabeth Berrien

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12. “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” ― Madeline Miller

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13. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

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14. “Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.” —Sue Grafton

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15. “They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn

16. Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” – David Searls

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17. “The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.” ― Anonymous

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18. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”—C. S. Lewis

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19. “The dead never truly die. They simply change form.” ― Suzy Kassem

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20. “Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.” ― Prateeksha Malik

Quotes about losing a loved one to reflect on how much we miss them

21. “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom (see these “I miss you” quotes)

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22. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”—Emily Dickinson

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23. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.”—Anonymous

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24. “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” —Anyon Chekov

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25. Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.—Euripides

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26. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear.” – Anonymous

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27. “Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones” ― Munia Khan

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28. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving

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29. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets

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30. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”– Dante

Quotes about losing a loved one to make us feel better

31. “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”—William Penn

32. “Death” is never an end, but a To Be Continued…” ― Renée Chae

33. “Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air.” – Zen Teaching

34. “Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”– Laura Ingles Wilder

35. “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.”– Norman Cousins

36. “Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.” ― Ally Carter

37. “May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.” – Eleesha

38. “All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family’s turn.” ― Ralph Webster

39. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”– George S. Patton Jr.

40. “If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back.” ― Prince

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Quotes about losing a loved one to lift your spirits

41. “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”—Kristina McMorris

42. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” – Jackson Brown Jr.

43. “The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.”― Fredrik Backman

44. “And yet I want to be human; I want to be thinking of him because then I feel he is alive somewhere, if only in my head.”― Sally Green

45. “At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.” – Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

46. “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore
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47. “The sun can break through the darkest cloud; love can brighten the gloomiest day.”— William Arthur Ward

48. “The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can.”— Grey’s Anatomy
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49. “Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.” ― Kathryn Orzech

50. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

Quotes about losing a loved one to make you strong

51. “Death wasn’t a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.” ― Soheir Khashoggi

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52. “In the memory of someone who touched so many lives and brought such happiness. May they rest in peace.” – Unknown

53. “His death brings new experience to my life – that of a wound that will not heal.” ― Ernst Jünger

54. “Time they said… Time will heal all wounds but they lied…” ― Tilicia Haridat

55. “Never take life for granted. Savor every sunrise, because no one is promised tomorrow…or even the rest of today.” ― Eleanor Brown

56. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”—James O’Barr

57. “Remembering the life of my dearest friend and the times we shared together. You are missed like no one else and I hope you’re in heaven watching down on us.” – Unknown

58. “Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.” ― Zoe Forward

59. “It’s more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there’s something she wants to tell me.” ― Marie Bostwick

60. “The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don’t give ye a mother but once.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes about losing a loved one to help you cope

61. I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”- Anne Frank

62. “I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” – Alyson Noel

63. “When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Anonymous

64. “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling

65. “Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” – Paulo Coelho

66. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris

67. “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” – Santosh Kalwar

68. “I can’t and won’t forget all you did for me. The memories of you will never fade.” – Unknown

69. “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius

70. “When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”― Rosamund Lupton

Quotes about losing a loved one to lift your mood

71. “We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” – J. W.

72. “Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.” – Ronald Reagan

73. “Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.” — Julie Burchill

74. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

75. “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.” – Marcus Aurelius

76. Loss can remind us that life itself is a gift.” – Louise Hay and David Kessler

77. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

78. “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”― Gail Caldwell

79. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

80. “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”― V.C. Andrews

Sympathetic quotes about losing a loved one

81. “The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” – Demoustier

82. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

83. “And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.’” – Unknown

84. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

85. “Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, Thank you, dear.” – Unknown

86. “When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.” — John Irving

87. “Your legacy lives on in us, your loving family.” – Unknown

88. “Memories… let them fill your mind, warm your heart, and lead you through.” – Unknown

89. “Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.” – Unknown

90. “The loss is unmeasurable but so is the love left behind.” – Unknown

Quotes about losing a loved one to help make you feel better

91. “You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.” – Mandy Hale

92. “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson

93. “The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found.” – Unknown

94. “He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

95. “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb

96. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou

97. “Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever.” – Unknown

98. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

99. “Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn.” – Native American Poem

100. “When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.” – Unknown

Quotes about losing a loved one to make you stronger

101. “He loved and was loved. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

102. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas

103. “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” – Jodi Picoult

104. “You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.” – Eva Ibbotson

105. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi

106. “Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!” – Latoya Alston

107. “Everyone copes differently, some cry for the loss of a loved one others smile because they know they’ll see them again.” – Unknown

108. “There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” – Cassandra Clare

109. “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” – Maurice Maeterlinck

110. “The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn’t eased, but there was room there for humor, too.” – Nalo Hopkinson

Quotes about losing a loved one to inspire healing

111. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From a headstone in Ireland

112. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” – Charles Dickens
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113. “In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” – Robert Ingersoll

114. “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” – Gail Caldwell

115. “You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” – Mahatma Gandhi

116. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” –
Arthur Schopenhauer

117. “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor

118. “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” –
Cassandra Clare

119. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb

120. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” –
G.K. Chesterton

Thoughtful quotes about losing a loved one

121. “As long as we live, they too will live, for they are now a part of us, as We remember them.” – Proverb

122. “You don’t know how easy death is. It’s like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she’s lost to you forever.” – Eloisa James

123. “All things grow with time, except grief.” —Jewish proverb

124. “The song has ended but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin

125. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories.”—Leo Buscaglia

126. “Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn’t magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.” – Carrie Jones

127. “Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other.”—Jandy Nelson

128. “For some moments in life there are no words.” – David Seltzer

129. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”—A.A. Milne

130. “When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.” – Drew Chadwick

Quotes about losing a loved one to help with grief

131. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

132. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” — Winnie the Pooh

133. “In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…that is where you and I shall meet.” — Alice Through the Looking Glass

134. “There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains.” — Unknown

135. “Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, “It Might Have Been.” — George Ade

136. “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” — Leo Buscaglia

137. “Grief is love not wanting to let go.” – Earl A. Grollman

138. “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.” ― Katharine Weber

139. “Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.” — Matthew 5:4

140. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi

Quotes about losing a loved one to encourage you

141. “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.” — C.S. Lewis

142. “The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

143. “How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson

144. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” — Maya Angelou

145. “Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” — Shakespeare

146. “Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s will be. But we learn to live in that love.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
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147. “What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren’t. Somebody tries to say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.’ People say that to me. There’s no language for it. Sorry doesn’t do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.” — Toni Morrison

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148. “Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison

149. “While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” — Samuel Johnson

150. “In life, we loved you dearly, in death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place, no one else will ever fill.” – Unknown

Quotes about losing a loved one to help you cope with grief

151. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”– Kahlil Gibran

152. “When someone is grieving, you don’t have to say anything. Just be present. Be nonjudgmental. Let them cry, scream, or sit in silence. You don’t have to fix them.” – Dana Arcuri

153. “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Arthur Golden

154. “Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

155. “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

156. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anonymous

157. “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – William Penn

158. “Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith…It is the price of love.” – Anonymous

159. “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face—I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” – Patrick Swayze

160. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” – Sophocles

Comforting quotes about losing a loved one

161. “When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” –
Pat Schweiber

162. “Everything feels so surreal when you are gone. Oh, if only you knew the things I’d do just to be able to see you once more.” – Unknown

163. “We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.” –
Michael Ondaatje

164. “Losing a loved one is painful, but losing someone like you is even worse, as you are the most loved of all. Should you return to our side, please stay longer this time, okay?” – Unknown

165. “It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in your heart that never grows back.” – Kevin Brooks

166. “How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.” — Eric Hoffer

167. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” –
Joshua Wisenbaker

168. “With deeper attachment, we usually have deeper grieving, and usually longer grieving.” — Ron Johnson

169. “Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.” – Charles Bukowski
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170. “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson

Profound quotes about losing a loved one

171. “If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.” – Lemony Snicket

172. “When you were gone, it felt as if we lost a part of our own body. It was as if you took us along with you, with all the pain of losing someone we never thought we’d lose.” – Unknown

173. “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” – Orson Scott Card

174. “Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.” — Anna Quindlen

175. “Chase away sorrow by living.” – Melissa Marr

176. “If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.” — Megan Devine

177. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” – Tupac Shakur

178. “There is nothing wrong with grief. It’s a natural extension of love. It’s a healthy and sane response to loss.” — Megan Devine

179. “The mourning process can feel like going through a carwash without a car.” – Jodi Livon

180. “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” — Sarah Dessen

Quotes about losing a loved one to help with healing

181. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”—Richard Bach

182. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”—Sophocles

183. “There is no death. Only a change of worlds.”—Chief Seattle

184. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals.”—Leo Tolstoy

185. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

186. “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”—Rossiter W. Raymond

187. “Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”—Rita Schiano

188. “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”—Thornton Wilder

189. “Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”—Meister Eckhart

190. “With sympathy, thinking of you at this sad time and sending love.” – Unknown

Quotes about grief and losing a loved one

191. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
—Vivian Greene

192. “He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.”—Sir Henry Taylor

193. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”—C.S. Lewis

194. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”—William Shakespeare

195. “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”—Richard Adams

196. “Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”—Kahlil Gibran

197. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”—Aeschylus

198. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday.” – Unknown

199. “Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!”—Ludwig Jacobowski

200. “Gone is the face we loved so dear. Silent is the voice we loved to hear. Too far away for sight or speech. But not too far for thought to reach.” – Unknown

Quotes about losing someone you love

201. “Your absence walks through the door every single day.” – Helen Lyon

202. Like my strong body would miss my heart beating loud, I miss you Brother.” – Michele Mellen

203. “The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life – I can’t forget the pain.” – Frank Lowry

204. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis

205. “Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

206. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” – Terry Pratchett

207. “Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” – Renee Wood

208. “If you see a sunset, it’s me, smiling from behind it. If I go away far, and you see a star, if you find it, I’m inside it.” – Anna Williams

209. “I still don’t know how to look at my life without an inescapable absence of you.” – Chloe Frayne

210. “I’ll be seeing you, in all the old familiar places, that this heart of mine embraces, all day through.” – Billie Holiday

Quotes about losing a loved one to help you feel lighter

211. “Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.” – Rodgers and Hammerstein

212. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Khalil Gibran

213. “When we have joy we crave to share; We remember them.” – Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

214. “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis

215. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days…” – John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

216. “Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” – William Shakespeare

217. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

218. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

219. “When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” – Korean Proverb

220. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” – C.S. Lewis

Quotes about losing a loved one to help you feel less alone

221. “You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.” – Emily Dickinson

222. “Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” – Unknown

223. “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.” – Stephen Vincent Benet

224. Who except the gods can live without any pain?” – Aeschylus

225. “Losing someone when you’re young is the greatest pain anyone can face.” – Amory Blaine

226. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

227. ” . . . grief makes one hour ten.” – William Shakespeare

228. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Ross Wallace

229. “The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!” — Henry Wadsworth

230. “Absence and death are the same, only that in death there is no suffering.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Death and grief quotes about losing a loved one

231. “Grief is just love with no place to go.” — Jamie Anderson

232. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck

233. “Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” ― Pablo Neruda

234. “Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.” ― Katherine Owen

235. “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” ― Sarah Dessen

236. “When it is darkest, we can see the stars.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

237. “I am because you were.” — Unknown

238. “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” — Joni Mitchell

239. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” — Unknown

240. “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” — Unknown

Uplifting and comforting quotes about losing a loved one

241. “Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

242. “I should like my epitaph to say, ‘He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh.’”– Reverend W. Awdry

243. “She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”– Ariana Dancu

244. “Sometimes the strong die, too.”– Louis Gosset Jr.

245. “Losing a mother doesn’t happen in a moment. It takes years to appreciate the impact of what’s gone.”– Lisa-Jo Baker

246. “Once the glue of the family passes away, holidays just aren’t the same anymore.”– Anonymous

247. “The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.”– Yolanda King

248. “The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.”– Erin Banks

249. “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”– Bessie Anderson Stanley

250. “I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love.”– Anonymous

More quotes about losing a loved one

251. “After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and life you have left.” —Morrie Schwartz

252. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

253. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”—Kenji Miyazawa

254. “All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control.” —Katie Kacvinsky

255. “Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours.”—Hebrew Proverb

256. “It’s not about getting over it it’s about learning to live with it.” — After Chloe

257. “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” —Richard Bach

258. “Healing takes time and you are doing the best you can and that is perfect.” – Unknown

259. “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. — Nicholas Sparks

260. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” — Mitch Albom

Quotes about losing a father

261. “To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches.” – Yann Martel

262. “The gift my father gave me every day of my life was he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano

263. “In losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.” – Saint Teresa of Ávila

264. “Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.” – Thomas G. Stemberg

265. “Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Gloria Naylor

266. It was a portion of my own self-analysis, my reaction to my father’s death—that is to say, to the most important event, the most poignant loss of a man’s life.” – Sigmund Freud

267. “Let me tell you, he is the hole in my heart. His loss is my scar. But let me tell you something, his memory drives me forward every single day of my life.” – Michelle Obama

268. “My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.” – Laurie Beth Jones

269. “You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And that is — it is what we do with that loss — our ability to transform it into a positive event —that is one of my father’s greatest lessons.” – Ted Kennedy Jr.

270. “Every day of our lives, our Father is with us. Every day our Father is here with us spiritually anyway.” – Ziggy Marley

More Quotes about Grief

271. “You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?” – Jerome Salinger

272. “No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply” – Billy Graham

273. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life”

274. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

275. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one” – Seneca

276. “No matter where you go you will always be in my heart.” – Anthony T. Hincks

277. “The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you” – Dean Jackson

278. “Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful “I miss you” – Richelle E. Goodrich

279. “Grief is like a moving river, so that’s what I mean by it’s always changing. It’s a strange thing to say because I’m at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone” – Michelle Williams

280. “Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals” – Jason Reynolds

Quotes about losing a loved one to make you feel better

281. “Grief is itself a medicine.” – William Cowper

282. “There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” –
Lou Reed, ‘Magic And Loss’

283. “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – The Wonder Years

284. Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire

285. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hillary Stanton Zunin

286. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” – Marcel Proust

287. “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up.”— Anne Lamott

288. “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.” –
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

289. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman

290. “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner

Quotes About Losing A Loved One To Help You In Grief

291. “I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?” ― Jessica Maria Tuccelli,

292. “Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape.” ― Kate O’Neill

293. “I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.” ― Leigh Bardugo

294. “It hurts when they’re gone. And it doesn’t matter if it’s slow or fast, whether it’s a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident.” ― Walter Mosley

295. “Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.” ― Avis Corea

296. “Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only love is infinite.” — Rumi

297. “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.” ― Henry David Thoreau

298. “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” ― Jonathan Harnisch

299. “I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away” ― James Whitcomb Riley

300. “True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.” — Alicia Barnhart

Quotes About Loosing A Loved One To Overcome Grief

301. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” — Thornton Wilder

302. “These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.” — David Nicholls

303. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

304. “Every second of everyday I still love them, and I won’t believe they are dead until I see it for myself.” ― Shannon A. Thompson

305. “Everyone dies but not everyone lives.” — William Wallace

306. “Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

307. “Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.” — Isaiah

308. “You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.” — Khalil Gibran

309. “When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” — Khalil Gibran

310. “[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.” — Judith Martin

Short quotes about losing a loved one

311. “He was dead. No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.”― Prerna Varma

312. “Time is life. Time for birth, time for death.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

313. “Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.”― Brandon M. Herbert

314. “When my grandmother died, time died, too, in this apartment.”― Banana Yoshimoto

315. “When Death laughs, no one else does.”― Amy Neftzger

316. “Death is nothing but absence of physical presence.”― Mayank Sharma

317. “Death. It’s around more than people realize.” ― Jessica Sorensen

318. “All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past.” ― Diana Palmer

319. “Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.”― Oliver North

320. “Death occurs in unexpected times.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

Quotes About Losing a Loved One To Let Go

321. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi

322. “There is no solution to death….Life intends to kill us.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers

323. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ― Oscar Wilde

324. “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” ― George Eliot

325. “Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.” ― Marcus Aurelius

326. “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” ― Virginia Woolf

327. “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson

328. “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” ― George R.R. Martin

329. “Death is not poison but merely life’s final remedy.” ― Terri Guillemets

330. “Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” ― David Gerrold

Quotes About Losing a Loved One To Recover From Mourning

331. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” — Leonardo Da Vinci

332. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” — J.K. Rowling

333. “Pain is certain, suffering is optional.” — Buddha

334. Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” — Keanu Reeves

335. “Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.” ― George R.R. Martin

336. “Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.” ― Jojo Moyes

337. “You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.” ― Erin Morgenstern

338. “She was no longer wrestling with grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thought.” — George Eliot

339. “There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.” — Victoria Alexander

340. “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” — Haruki Murakami

Quotes About Losing a Loved One To Overcome Grief

341. “Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home.” ― John Ruskin

342. “She was no longer wrestling with the grief but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.” ― George Eliot

343. “There is no death, only a change of the world.” ― Chief Seattle

344. “And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.” ― William Cullen Bryant

345. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief the closer is God.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

346. “Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you’ve lived.” ― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

347. “There is grace in grief and strength in sorrow.” ― Annie Dougherty

348. “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” ― Socrates

349. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with their heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi

350. “Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.” ― Dodinsky

Quotes About Losing a Loved One To Uplift Your Soul

351. “I guess sometimes forever is a lot shorter than you think it’s going to be.” ― Jordon Greene

352. “I am here to create greatness, not in living legacy, but memories for thereafter…and then I must go.” ― Justin Alcala

353. “Don’t wait for people to die before you celebrate them; it’s useless to the Deceased.” ― PK Kasirim

354. “The last gust of the past still dwells in the heart.” ― Kaylee Stepkoski

355. “Your death is proof that I shouldn’t blindly trust these false promises of more years and months and weeks and tomorrow’s and hours and minutes just because I was young.” ― Adam Silvera

356. “The most painful thing in life is to watch the people you love wither away.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy

357. “Death is no respecter of love.” ― Sheldon Vanauken

358. “The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory.” ― Farah Bashir

359. “When I lost her, it felt like I was drowning in all the love I still had that could never be given.” ― Christina Lauren

360. The pain of losing someone you love is not so much as to die for, as to live without them.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotes About Losing A Loved One To Comfort Others

361. “We do not have to rely on memories to recapture the spirit of those we have loved and lost – they live within our souls in some perfect sanctuary which even death cannot destroy.” — Nan Witcomb

362. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

363. “The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.” — Joshua Loth Liebman

364. “Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” — Virginia Satir

365. “We need never be afraid of our tears.” — Charles Dickens

366. “We get no choice. If we love, we grieve.” — Thomas Lynch

367. “We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.” — Dean Koontz

368. “A thousand moments I had just taken for granted, mostly because I assumed there would be a thousand more.” —- Morgan Matson

369. “Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.” — Jean Cameron

370. And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can endure. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes the point where simply no more will be absorbed. — Sarah Waters

Quotes About Losing A Loved One To Help You Overcome The Pain

371. “Grief is what I feel when someone passes away, Grief is what I feel when I am concerned, Grief is what I feel when I have done wrong, Grief is what I feel when some accident happens, Grief is something that all people have gone through.” — Brandi Reissig

372. “I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.” — Rita Mae Brown

Quotes About Losing a Loved One to Navigate the Pain

373. “The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.” ― Tigress Luv

374. “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world—the company of those who have known suffering.” ― Helen Keller

375. “They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away…I disagree…I say a part of you lives with your Loved One on the other side.” ― Daniel Yanez

376. “But now the other half of “us” was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I’d be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.” ― Jennifer Brown

377. “The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.” ― Courtney M. Privett

378. “There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.” ― R. Alan Woods

379. “It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.” ― Dean Koontz

380. “They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don’t have to hear the stupid things people say, but I’d look like a dork in them.” ― Carole Geithner

381. “Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.” ― David Paul Kirkpatrick

382. “I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.” ― Francesca Lia Block

Quotes About Losing a Loved One to Find Solace in Loss

383. “His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.” ― Robin Hobb

384. “At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery

385. “And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.” ― J. Lincoln Fenn

386. “Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.” ― J. Lincoln Fenn

387. “We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn’t be allowed.” ― Anna Maxted

388. “Death. It’s around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It’s too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.” ― Jessica Sorensen

399. “Only one person in the room didn’t cry that day and it was the man hunched on a chair, singing passionately from the darkest corners of his soul.” ― Anna McPartlin

400. “Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?” ― Alisa Mullen

401. “We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.” ― Jimmy Iovine

402. “Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.” ― Eleesha

403. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” — Haruki Murakami

404. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” — Chuck Palahniuk

405. “There is no death, daughter. People only die when we forget them”— Isabel Allende

406. “Deeply, I know this, that love triumphs over death. My father continues to be loved, and therefore he remains by my side.” — Jennifer Williamson

407. “The death of a parent is rarely expected and never accepted.” — Shane Pendley

408. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” — Ernest Hemingway

409. “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one.” — Lemony Snicket

410. “The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

411. “The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.” — Robert Southey

412. “We do not ‘get over’ a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives.” — Nathalie Himmelrich

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