50 Inspirational Quotes About Death for Friends: Comfort and Reflection

"To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses."

- Cicero

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. It is a reaction to change: life-altering change. Those who grieve are not weak; they are strong people with an overabundance of sensitivity and humanity in facing an overwhelming situation."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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'

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

- Thomas Lynch

"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'

"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

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. The death of a beloved is an amputation."

- C.S. Eliot

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

- Rumi

"Perhaps they are not stars, but openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."

- The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Helen Keller

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It says, 'Now is the time to do what you will.'"

- Leo Buscaglia

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

"Do you remember when Henry died? Do you remember how it felt when we saw Dad cry for the first time? We were six. We held his hand as Henry's casket was lowered into the ground. And Dad told us, "The death of a man is not the death of his dream." Do you remember that?"

- Ezra Claytan Daniels

"Grief does not change you, it reveals you."

- John Green

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"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 fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare

"Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every time I do, the pain of his absence pierces my chest. That’s the thing about losing someone: there’s one major death followed by a million little deaths."

- Alexandra Latos

"Love is the most powerful force in the universe, and for two beings, who love each other, separation is only temporary. By the Laws of Attraction, they will inevitably be drawn back together, like magnets."

- Helene Minto

"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

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

- Irish Proverb

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind."

- William Wordsworth

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Seneca

"Death is not extinguishing the light, it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Mother Teresa

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"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

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Whenever you long for your former lover, think of what you really wanted. The one recollection will suffice you—you want nothing from him but to love again."

- Blaise Pascal

"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'

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Campbell

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 'The Golden Legend'

"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

"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

"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

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

- Hebrew proverb

"We need never be afraid of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

"The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses.."

- Publilius Syrus

"You have been my friend…That in itself is a tremendous thing."

- E.B. White

"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

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."

- Haruki Murakami

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

- William Shakespeare

"What is lovely never dies. But passes into other loveliness."

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Nobody ever gets over losses like that. It's just part of your broken heart forever."

- Cheryl Strayed

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

- Henry Rollins

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the way life is."

- Hugh Laurie

"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

"Those things that hurt instruct."

- Benjamin Franklin

"He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Alyson Noel 'Evermore'

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

- Emily Dickinson

"Death is only a horizon. And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

- Richard Dehmel

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

- Roger de Rabutin

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

- From a headstone in Ireland

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

- Haruki Murakami

"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

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

- Alan Sachs

"Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it fans the flame, it extinguishes the lamp."

- Antoine Rivarol

"Death —the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

- Walter Scott

"It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

- Socrates

"Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"When my dad passed away at the hospital, we played Ripple and Brokedown Palace right there in the room as we said goodbye. "Fare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell Listen to the river sing sweet songs To rock my soul" I'll never listen to those songs again without thinking about him. But that's not a bad thing."

- JacobCHR

"Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that."

- Anthony Kiedis

"Death departing from men receives the greatest praise for vanquishing them; but when he stays long with them, they blame him because he did not go sooner."

- Sophocles

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

- Les Miserables

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

- Hebrew proverb

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in times of misery."

- Aeschylus

"A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through."

- BonoBeats

"Fare you well Fare you well I love you more than words can tell Listen to the river sing sweet songs To rock my soul"

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"Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint– Exupéry

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"May the 4 winds blow u safely home."

- seebrowndenver

"It's the same story the crow told me It's the only one he know Like the morning sun you come And like the wind you go"

- Ponstubine

"All the years combine they melt into a dream A broken angel sings from a guitar In the end there's just a song comes crying like the wind through all the broken dreams and vanished years"

- Dizzy-Ad4584

"Such a long, long time to be gone And a short time to be there"

- GratefulRed13

"Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell"

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

- Unknown

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

"A true friend is never truly gone. Their spirit lives on in the memories of those who loved them."

"The hardest part of losing someone isn’t having to say goodbye but rather learning to live without them."

"Our best friends know that they were loved for who they were in life and will be remembered for their hearts in their deaths."

"The memories we shared are the ones I hold onto tightly, for they bring you back to me, if only for a moment."

"By the water side I will rest my head"

"Your absence is felt, but your spirit lives on in us."

"Even though they are gone, their love continues to guide and protect us."

"Healing doesn't mean forgetting, but finding a way to carry their light with you."

"A great friend is something to be cherished, whether they remain by my side in this life or wait for me in the next."

"What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness."

"Rest my bones, lay my head"

"Losing a friend is like losing the sibling you chose. A devastating moment that will change you forever."

"Loss of a friendship through death is cruel and cold. Warmth is found through fond memories, so curl up with them whenever you need to."

"Their beaming personality taught us to live, laugh, and love. That’s something we’ll never lose."

"My friend was ridiculously happy in life, so let us celebrate their amazing impact rather than weep over our loss."

"A friend in spirit, indeed. Let us take joy in remembering you as you were in life."

"Honoring a friend's death is truly about honoring their life. You may feel despair over what may have been, but try to hold onto the wonderful times you shared."

"We remember, we honor, we carry you in our hearts."

"Friends are the family we choose, and losing you feels like losing a part of myself."

"In the Book of Life, you were my favorite chapter."

"In the quiet moments, may memories bring both tears and smiles."

"They say friends are the family we choose. Being chosen was the greatest moment of my life, and when they passed away, it was the worst moment of my life."

"Your laugh still echoes in the quiet moments."

"The laughter shared, and the secrets whispered will forever be cherished."

"While we mourn the loss, may we also celebrate the gift of their friendship."

"Laughter silenced, but memories play on."

"Your presence lingers in every place we shared."

"Dear friends are the ones who know the good and bad about us and choose us anyway. Even when they have passed to the next life, we still feel them encouraging us to be our best selves."

"Your absence is a void that can't be filled."

"Remember them with laughter and tears, for both honor the life they lived."

"The world seems dimmer without their presence, but their memory shines bright."

"Friendship transcends death. The memories we made will never be forgotten. I am a better person for having such a wonderful friend."

"I still pick up my phone to call them, forgetting they're not there."

"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible."

"Cheers to the person who made everything more exciting. Heaven gained quite the angel when you left us."

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

"We have known each other from time everlasting. You were a friend before life began. We shall know one another again in heaven."

- Unknown

"A friend's death is a great sorrow for all who loved them."

"When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know."

- Unknown