100 Inspirational Quotes to Comfort You After the Loss of a Loved One

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better’. They’re wrong. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone. I miss being a part of their lives and them being part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if they were here – what we might have done together. I miss all the great things that will never be."

- Keanu Reeves

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever."

- A.A. MILNE

"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

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A. A. Milne

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. ROWLING

"Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was. A death is not the extinguishing of a light but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."

- RABINDRANATH TAGORE

"Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished."

- MADELEINE L’ENGLE

"Say not in grief that he is no more but live in thankfulness that he was."

- HEBREW PROVERB

"Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch."

- JACK THORNE

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

- Thomas Campbell

"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. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes - when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever - there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."

- John Irving

"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 and David Kessler

"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity."

- Terri Guillemets

"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

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief isonly a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

- Hillary Stanton Zunin

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

- TERRY PRATCHETT

"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies."

- WILLIAM PENN

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"

- CARSON MCCULLERS

"If there ever comes a day where we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever."

- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"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 'The Darkest Evening Of The Year'

"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

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"Life has to end. Love doesn't."

- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery."

- F. Alexander Magoun

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"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. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp."

- Anne Lamott

"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

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

- Leo Tolstoy

"All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control."

- Katie Kacvinsky

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

- ANAIS NIN

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

- John Steinbeck

"One more day One more time One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied But then again I know what it would do Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you."

- Diamond Rio, One More Day

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

- From a headstone in Ireland

"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear."

- C.S Lewis

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

- Aeschylus

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

- Marcel Proust

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."

- William Faulkner

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."

- Emma Thompson

"You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be."

- Nigella Lawson

"Grief is like a moving river, it's always changing. 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

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."

- Jan Gildwell

"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us."

- Sascha

"There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays."

- Jodi Picoult

"Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop."

- Dodinsky

"I'm gone now, but I'm still very near, death can never separate us. Each time you feel a gentle breeze, it's my hand caressing your face. Each time the wind blows, it carries my voice whispering your name. When the wind blows your hair ever so slightly, think of it as me pushing a few stray hairs back in place. When you feel a few raindrops fall on your face, it's me placing soft kisses. At night look up in the sky and see the stars shining so brightly. I'm one of those stars and I'm winking at you and smiling with delight. For never forget, you're the apple of my eye."

- Mary M Green

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."

- Nicholas Sparks 'The Notebook'

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

- Colette

"I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too."

- Chloe Woodward

"Our grief is as individual as our lives."

- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"We get no choice. If we love, we grieve."

- Thomas Lynch

"Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew proverb

"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

"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

"I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge."

- Og Mandino

"Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."

- Mother Teresa

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"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

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and life you have left."

- Morrie Schwartz

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

- Kenji Miyazawa

"Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours."

- Hebrew Proverb

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others."

- THUCYDIDES

"If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back."

- PRINCE

"Remembering is an act of resurrection, each repetition a vital layer of mourning, in memory of those we are sure to meet again."

- NANCY COBB

"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

- SAMUEL BUTLER

"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."

- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The connections we make in the course of life—maybe that’s what heaven is."

- FRED ROGERS

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one."

- SENECA

"Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories."

- RONALD REAGAN

"You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart."

- NIKITA GILL

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

- C.S. Lewis

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my own garden forever."

- ALFRED JENNYON

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Only a moment you stayed but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts."

- DOROTHY FERGUSON

"When he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

- JIM VALVANO

"A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children."

- ÉMILE GABORIAU

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men."

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"Grief is itself a medicine."

- William Cowper

"You gave me a forever within the numbered days…"

- John Green

"Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today. I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here."

- Mariska Hargity

"Ain't no shame in holding on to grief... as long as you make room for other things too."

- "Bubbles," The Wire

"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

"When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart."

- Korean Proverb

"If I die before you which is all but certain then in the moment before you will see me become someone dead in a transformation as quick as a shooting star’s I will cross over into you and ask you to carry not only your own memories but mine too until you too lie down and erase us both together into oblivion."

- Galway Kinnell, Promissory Note

"When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

- Kahlil Gibran

"It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward."

- Patti Davis

"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it."

- William Shakespeare

"So when you need her touch And loving gaze Gone but not forgotten Is the perfect phrase Smiling from a star That she makes glow Trust she's always there Watching as you grow Find her in the place Where the lost things go."

- The Place Where Lost Things Go, Mary Poppins Returns

"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love."

- Kristina McMorris

"I will not say: Do not weep; For not all tears are evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

"Give the sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"And once the storm is over you won't remember you how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm's all about."

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"We MUST carry on."

- Barbara Stone

"Grieving is such a personal space. What helps one may not help another. Sometimes silence and recognition that grief is a very hard travail are better than any quote or words. Let the person who is grieving tell her story. The most comforting words anyone ever said to me were, “I know this is a hard time for you.”"

- Dee Randolph

"Don’t give up, you could out live us all….Cherish the memories of your lost love ones, and be Thankful God gave you such wonderful family to love, some don’t have that…"

- Melody Hope

"Hug them and remind them how much you need them. Tell them that they must all keep their brothers memory alive and put your pain and loss in an imaginary box and put it on a shelf. Wake up each day and remember what you have that is still alive. Be thankful for the time you had with your son. His destiny was to pass . Hopefully he will be reborn and live another longer lifetime. Until then he will always be alive in you. Hold your kids tight and dont let go. All the best. Love and light."

- Jenifer Hope Dawson-Amar

"We all know that all life comes to an end. The difference is that between us & the animals, we have a soul that is capable of love. Losing a loved one should not be a devastating experience! The hardest part is that we will miss them, but in time. we WILL see them again for eternity! That fact alone , is enough to carry one through any grief that one could experience. The bond of love will bring us together again!"

- Jerry from Maine

"My son died almost 4 years ago. I feel gutted and list inthe workd. I am on meds. I pray, walk, I have close friends and a living husband. Nothing touches the pain. I am lost in the world without my son. It seems so empty. He was my firstborn child. I felt him move inside me. I nursed him for a year. He is gone. I hate to have people ask me how I am. I will not be OK again. I will not kill myself, but each day I go through is a day without my son and it feels pointless."

- Sarah Cooper

"Animals have souls too just like humans. Today my mom died of cancer. We only found out she had cancer 6 days ago. I am still in shock and overwhelmed and consumed by grief. My mom was my best friend and I was her carer so most days were spent with my mom whether working for her or hanging out with her. I returned home earlier today just a few hours after having her die in my arms & immediately broke down. Its been a long time since I cried that hard and long. In the middle of my grief & tears my cat came up & began licking my forehead. Then he curled up beside my head and put his face next to mine while I continued to cry myself to sleep. When I awoke 2 hours later I found him lying on my chest with his face to mine looking at me and he began purring once he saw me open my eyes to wake up. As I sit at my bedside typing this reply he is still with me & sitting on my lap. My kitty showed me more comfort & support than the people who were around me right after my mom passed. If that is not love and if that is not lovable then I don’t know what is. Thank you & God bless."

- Zina Sattler Jimenez

""THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO IN THIS WORLD AND SO MUCH TO LOOSE IF IT IS NOT DONE". By helping children of fathers who have committed suicide, we have found a purpose to lift them up by sponsoring for their education. It is as if saying “SO WHAT IF MY SON IS GONE, FOR IN HIS MEMORY HUNDREDS WILL LIVE ON”."

- Anju Chawla

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"My heart taught my baby’s heart how to beat… it was in complete rhythm of my own and when his stopped a piece of mine stopped with his and that piece hurts and pains me every minute of every day… a pain of which I have learned to bear alone."

- Robin Coulson

"I do not know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds my tomorrow."

- Priscella

"I lost my dad last year in May. It was such a shock! He was 78 and we didn’t expect that he would die. I realised now that I was so strongly connected to him and he was my source and center. I feel lost now and without energy. Before I was able to live and work and survive but now I feel alone without strength. I realise that I got so much from him even the will to live and a purpose. Never understood his value until he was gone. He was a great man. He was a preacher, writer, sportsman, finance advisor and so much more. He looked well after us 4 children. Now I have 4 children of my own. Now I must face life without his support and strength. It is difficult without him and I still grieve especially these days coming into the new year. At times I feel like joining him and find no reason to go on. But I am still here and holding on. Thanks for your words of comfort."

- Frank Van Der Stok

"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."

- Doug Ebbert

"Bless all our lost loves and us-I try to remember they don’t miss us-they don’t know why we are sad, all they know now is happiness and peace-they are with all our others we lost."

- Jody Lewonas

"To her, the name of father was another name for love."

- Fanny Fern

"Someday soon, we all will be together If the fates allow Until then, We'll have to muddle through somehow."

- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

"This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments—and you get the tears at the end, too."

- HARLAN COBEN

"There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child."

- Jennifer Williamson

"Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."

- from The Wonder Years

"I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, 'Look: She existed.'"

- Meghan O'Rourke

"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

"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."

- Quintus Ennius

"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."

- Langston Hughes

"The boundaries between life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins?"

- EDGAR ALLAN POE

"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

"We need never be afraid of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."

- Buddhist saying

"Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated."

- ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"Forgiveness is healing ... especially forgiving yourself."

- Alyson Noel 'Evermore'

"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

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

- Mark Twain, 'Which Was The Dream?'

"The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 'The Golden Legend'

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-used brings happy death."

- LEONARDO DA VINCI

"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 'One Day'

"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."

- Nicholas Sparks 'Message In A Bottle'

"Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived."

- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'It will be happier'..."

- Alfred Tennyson

"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

"When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live."

- Stuart Scott

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal."

- SUSAN WIGGS

"The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated."

- Cheryl Strayed

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

- Mark Twain

"I can’t think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral."

- ADMIRAL LORD MOUNTBATTEN

"Those things that hurt instruct."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

- Chinese Proverb

"What separates us from animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met."

- David Levithan

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Life is a song—sing it. Life is a game—play it. Life is a challenge—meet it. Life is a dream—realise it. Life is a sacrifice—offer it. Life is love—enjoy it."

- SAI BABA

"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."

- Lou Reed, 'Magic And Loss'

"Look closely and you will see almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders. That's why it takes courage to get out of bed in the morning and climb into the day."

- Edward Hirsch

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."

- Irving Berlin

"For me look into a mirror, say this to yourself, “your a gorgeous human being who was given the gift of life.” A hella bumpy road then in unprincipled, its called a adventure. cherish every second of your life as you will never know when it may end. why did god take someone that meant so much? I will never know. don’t feel pity. as bad as it all sounds “things happens for reasons. Those reasons will lead to something better.”"

- Bryenna Peachey

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

- WILLA CATHER

"I lost husband in July of 2017… we,were only married a year n was shot and killed because of mistaken identity… I haven’t been able to get myself back on track… no it hasn’t gotten better or made any sense I couldn’t go to the funeral I couldn’t even leave the house for almost 2 months… I regret not saying a final goodbye at gus funeral n I’m stuck our kids miss him too but they keep reminding me that I’m still here and they need me…. thank you I needed to vent… ppl r tired of my pain n think I should be OK by now… he was my best friend n the only man I ever fell n love with I still feel like it’s wrong to date wtf uugghhhhhh…. thank you"

- Iyyanna

"God will never leave me nor forsake me. It is well with my soul."

- Lerato

"People always want a reason for the bad things in life; sometimes there ain’t one."

- Stephen King

"Lives are like rivers: eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to."

- RICHARD RUSSO

"I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize that I’m listening to it."

- GEORGE CARLIN

"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

- WINSTON CHURCHILL

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome."

- Isaac Asimov

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people live."

- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."

- NAZR MOHAMMED

"The idea is to die young as late as possible."

- ASHLEY MONTAGU

"Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready."

- ROBIN WILLIAMS

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

- W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man."

- Heraclitus

"Immortality … a fate worse than death."

- EDGAR A. SHOAFF

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."

- HENRY DRUMMOND

"14 years. My longest relationship. My only experience of maternal love. My constant companon. My best friend. Duck."

- Sarah Silverman, On Her Dog Duck

"Tears water our growth."

- William Shakespeare

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

"It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on."

- Joni Mitchell, River

"You are undoubtedly a very resilient and courageous individual."

- Coach Salif

"Grief sucks."

- Everyone Ever

"Life is stressful, dear. That’s why they say ‘rest in peace."

- DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI

"If tears could build a stairway,and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again."

- Author unknown

"Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow."

- Author unknown

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."

"The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away."

"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever."

"It’s a divine gift to find the light inside while in the midst of despair."

- Unknown

"Smile at a newly budding rose..its a spiritual thing ~ for there is bound to be something they touched, a silly remark/expression they say about your nose, ear, smile, eyes..something unusually unique & theirs alone, that they left behind that makes you put on a silent smile, every once in a awhile."

"Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift kick to the shin."