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

"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

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"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

"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

"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

- Vicki Harrison

"Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."

- Deborah Reber

"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."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- MADELEINE L’ENGLE

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"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

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

- JACK THORNE

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

- Terri Guillemets

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jan Gildwell

"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

"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'

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

- From a headstone in Ireland

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"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

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

- Emily Dickinson

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mitch Albom

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"We MUST carry on."

- Barbara Stone

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

- WILLIAM PENN

"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

"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

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

- John Green

"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

"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

"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

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

- Korean Proverb

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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. I know I will be with my lost loves one day and if they actually do see me grieving why can’t I feel them?"

- Jody Lewonas

"I lost my husband on 6/9/18 to prostate cancer. He was only 56. He fought so hard for 2 years, he loved his life, our cats and he loved me. I’ve lost both my parents and most of my family but this is the absolute worst. The grief is unbearable, our house doesn’t feel like a home anymore. and my life will never be the same. I would give anything to see him walk through that door again. I miss him terribly."

- Charmaine Day

"I lost my husband on February 12, 2019 to pancreatic and liver cancer. He was 58. He was diagnosed and died 35 days later. I didn’t even get a chance to process it becuase he died very fast. I’m still going through denial and my life will never be the same with out him. We were married for 10 years and I miss him more and more everyday. Our home is not the same without him. I sit in the livingroom and expect him to just walk and say ” honey I’m home” and my heart hurts when I realize that he will not be walking through the door. I will always love him and will keep the memories close to my heart."

- Rosie Perez

"I lost my husband November 2017 we were together 52 years it’s good to know the sorrow I feel is normal like everybody I just wish I’d told him how much l loved him more times than I did ,now it’s to later but l have the memories and nothing can take them away .love you loads until we are together again."

- Pat Brennan

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Stephen King

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Grief is itself a medicine."

- William Cowper

"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

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

- C.S Lewis

"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?'

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

- Aeschylus

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

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

- William Faulkner

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."

- Eskimo legend

"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

"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

"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'

"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'

"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

"We need never be afraid of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Katie Kacvinsky

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies... A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- CARSON MCCULLERS

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- HEBREW PROVERB

"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

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

- FRED ROGERS

"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'

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

- Chloe Woodward

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 'The Golden Legend'

"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

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

- Alyson Noel 'Evermore'

"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

"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

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."

- Buddhist quote

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

"May all beings everywhere, Seen and unseen, Dwelling far off or nearby, Being or waiting to become, May all be filled with lasting joy."

- Buddhist quote

"Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved."

- Jean Cameron

"People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we're not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever."

- Fern Bork

"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

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

- Buddhist saying

"Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones."

- Proverb

"Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, "It Might Have Been.""

- George Ade 'More Fables'

"A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference."

- Grenville Kleiser 'Dictionary Of Proverbs'

"That song is sweetest, bravest, best, Which plucks the thistle-barb of care From a despondent brother's breast, And plants a sprig of heart's-ease there."

- Andrew Downing 'The Sweetest Song'

"What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul."

- Jewish proverb

"Tears water our growth."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Lou Reed, 'Magic And Loss'

"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

"Those things that hurt instruct."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;"

- Shakespeare

"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 read so many comments here about difficulty moving on from a death and it pains my heart. We live life as if death will never come near us, the only sure thing to come in life. and so when it does, we suffer so much, for so long, forgetting that in next to no time we will be gone too. We are all the wind, I hope this helps."

- J.D. Oldenburg

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

- Priscella

"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

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

- Alfred Tennyson

"I lost my Husband two days before my birthday on the 08/06/2017, it happened so suddenly I miss Him like grazy and know will ever replace Him. the good memories are keeping me alive and strong. I am living for Him and my God. God will never leave me nor forsake me. It is well with my soul."

- Lerato

"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

"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

"Five years back my best friend (my soulmate for 25 years) her thirty two year old son was killed crossing a road. My children and her children were always together. My children will never fully recover from this loss. He was my friend’s son, but I had been a big part of his life from such a young age. I had never known sadness like this. What really has helped my friend and me to cope with his tragic death is that she has reached out to so many other children in need. “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”. When she and I receive pictures of these children, we see Paul (son who died) looking back at us and saying “Thank You Moms”."

- Anju Chawla

"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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I have a hole in my soul over the loss of my mom, but I want her memory to be actively moving me toward filling holes that I can fill."

- Rozelle M Watson

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

- CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND

"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

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

- Irving Berlin

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

- Cayla Mills

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

- SUSAN WIGGS

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jennifer Williamson

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

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"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

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

- Fanny Fern

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

- Coach Salif

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

- David Levithan

"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

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

- JIM VALVANO

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

- ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

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

- THUCYDIDES

"A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses."

- Anonymous

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

- Helen Keller

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

- LEONARDO DA VINCI

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Langston Hughes

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

- RICHARD RUSSO

"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

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

- Sarah Silverman

"Grief sucks."

- Everyone Ever

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

- Heraclitus

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

- NAZR MOHAMMED

"Your absence is painted on my daily landscapes"

- peter.hobden

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

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

- WILLA CATHER

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

- WINSTON CHURCHILL

"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

"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

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

- Clarence Budington Kelland

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

- HENRY DRUMMOND

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

"Immortality … a fate worse than death."

- EDGAR A. SHOAFF

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

- DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI

"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

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

- GEORGE CARLIN

"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

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

- Author unknown

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

- Author unknown

"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

"Perhaps they are not the 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."

- ANONYMOUS

"The person we lost will never be forgotten. They will continue to live in our hearts and memories, reminding us of the love and joy they brought into our lives."

- Unknown

"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest."

"Grief is like the ocean. It comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

"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 to grief is to grieve."

"Those whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are."

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

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

"The pain of losing someone we love is the price we pay for the privilege of having loved someone and having that person be a part of our lives."

- Unknown

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

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

"Love is like standing in wet cement, the longer you stay the harder to leave and you can never leave without leaving your marks behind."

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

"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."

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

"It is perfectly okay to admit you are not okay"

"The reality is that you will grieve forever"

"You will survive and find purpose"

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

- Unknown

"Grief is never something you get over"

"Death is a challenge it tells us"

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out"

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

"Healing does not spring up instantaneously"

"Those we love don’t go away"

"Be the things you loved most"

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved"