“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
Or at least seem to be.
I didnt want to fix it, to forget.
Ben Blennerhassett
It wasnt something that was broken.
Its just… something that happened.
And like that hole, Im just finding ways, every day, of working around it.
Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
Sarah Dessen
2.I love you every day.
And now I will miss you every day.
Anna Quindlen
4.What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes part of us.
I miss you like hell.
Hilary Stanton Zunin
10.There are no goodbyes for us.
Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Eric Hoffer
12.If we venture to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.
Megan Devine
13.To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
14.With deeper attachment, we usually have deeper grieving, and usually longer grieving.
Ron Johnson
15.There is nothing wrong with grief.
Its a natural extension of love.
Its a healthy and sane response to loss.
And at that moment begins our true grief.
Lauren Groff,
17.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.
Nigella Lawson
19.Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor.
You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
Leo Tolstoy
21.There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wordsworth
22.Dont grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
23.Sorrow is how we learn to love.
Your heart isnt breaking.
It hurts because its getting larger.
The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
Nathalie Himmelrich
25.Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Unknown
26.We do not get over a death.
We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives.
In our hearts, we carry those who have died.
We grieve and we love.
29.Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.
30.Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone.
John Irving
32.My mother is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being.
I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
Graycie Harmon
33.A moms hug lasts long after she lets go.
Unknown
35.A mothers love is always with her children.
Losing a mother is one of the deepest sorrows a heart can know.
May that love surround you now and bring you peace.
Unknown
36.Mothers hold their childrens hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
Unknown
38.The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her.
I miss seeing your beautiful smile and the sound of your voice saying my name.
I miss hearing you say, I love you, and me saying, I love you in return.
Margaret Sanger
41.There is no death, daughter.
People only die when we forget them, my mother explained shortly before she left me.
If you’re free to remember me, I will be with you always.
Isabel Allende
42.I remember my mothers prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
43.You were my home, Mother.
I had no home but you.
Janet Fitch
44.Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Emily Dickinson
45.Life has to end, she said.
Harlan Coben
47.There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child.
Jennifer Williamson
49.Deeply, I know this, that love triumphs over death.
My father continues to be loved, and therefore he remains by my side.
Jennifer Williamson
50.It doesnt matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
52.Now I know why you always told me to be strong.
You knew that one day I would need the strength to bear your loss.
Unknown
53.When my father didnt have my hand, he had my back.
Fathers like mine dont ever die.
Leo Buscaglia
54.My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Umberto Eco
56.The death of a parent is rarely expected and never accepted.
Shane Pendley
57.Every mans 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
58.My father gave me my dreams.
Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Pam Brown
60.To her, the name of father was another name for love.
Fanny Fern
Quotes About Losing a Friend Too Soon:
61.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Mitch Albom
62.It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one.
And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.
Lemony Snicket,
63.The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground.
They are buried deep in our hearts.
It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
Alexandre Dumas
64.We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
Madame de Stael
65.Grief can destroy you or focus you.
Dean Koontz
66.The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual.
Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.
Richelle E. Goodrich
67.Those we love dont go away, they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard but always near, still loved, still missed, and held so dear.
I wouldnt trade those moments for the world.
Unknown
69.Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Not even death itself can part true friends.
John Cassian
75.Even the best of friends cannot attend each others funeral.
The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
Right now I cant sleep.
Its right now that I cant eat.
Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know hes not here.
Right now all I seem to do is cry.
Nina Guilbeau
78.When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them.
But youll never get used to the 10 second heartbreak.
Thats the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.
Losing people you love affects you.
It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache.
It doesnt magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.
Unknown
81.There should be a statute of limitation on grief.
A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month.
That its okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.
Unknown
83.No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Lewis
84.Like daily sads, major grief does end.
It takes time to grieve.
Ninety-nine percent of the time grief is finished in minutes or hours if we allow it.
Ron Johnson
85.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.
J.K. Rowling
87.Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul.
Nicholas Sparks
88.Grief is a most peculiar thing; were so helpless in the face of it.
Its like a window that will simply open of its own accord.
The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver.
Arthur Golden
89.No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesnt stop for your grief.
Not the end of life but the end of pain.
Stephen King
93.Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us?
I think we take them with us.
They remain with us, if in another form.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
94.The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
95.Death is a challenge.
It tells us not to waste time…
It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
96.A great soul serves everyone all the time.
A great soul never dies.
It brings us together again and again.
Maya Angelou
97.Dont cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Ted Geisel
98.We all die.
The goal isnt to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
99.No one can get over grief, but everyone can get through grief.
Ron Johnson
100.We bereaved are not alone.
We belong to the largest company in all the worldthe company of those who have known suffering.
Andrews
102.You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos.
Moving on doesnt mean letting go.
Mary VanHaute
103.It is perfectly okay to admit youre not okay.
Unknown
104.Grief does not change you, Hazel.
John Green
105.Only through the significant loss of my loved ones have I truly begun to live.
When their eyes closed, mine were opened.
109.And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
110.Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
111.For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
114.I am the resurrection and the life.
Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
116.Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
117.If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
Eskimo Proverb
122.Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
Terri Guillemets
123.Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
124.Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Seneca
125.Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
Orson Scott Card
126.Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
127.When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Unknown
128.Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.
Unknown
129.When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
We never lose our loved ones.
They accompany us; they dont disappear from our lives.
We are merely in different rooms.
Paulo Coelho
132.Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end.
Katharine Weber
133.This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.
Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy.
Nicholas Sparks
134.Grit your teeth and let it hurt.
Dont deny it, dont be overwhelmed by it.
It will not last forever.
Yogi Berra
137.Im always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize that Im listening to it.
George Carlin
138.Life is hard.
Then they throw dirt in your face.
Then the worms eat you.
Be grateful if it happens in that order.
David Gerrold
139.There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing.
The living are getting rarer.
Joshua Burns
141.Im very pleased to be here.
Lets face itat my age, Im very pleased to be anywhere.
George Burns
142.Dying is easy; its living that scares me to death.
Annie Lennox
143.I intend to live forever or die trying.
Groucho Marx
144.In this world, nothing can be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
145.Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
146.If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button.
Sam Levenson
147.When I die, I hope to go to heaven, whatever the hell that is.
a fate worse than death.
Steven Wright
150.Life is pleasant.
Its the transition thats troublesome.
152.The best advice that I got during counseling: Dont judge your spouses grief response.
Give them the freedom to grieve their own way.
Richard Hooker
154.An angel in the book of life wrote down my babys birth.
Then whispered as she closed the book too beautiful for earth.
Tryon Edwards
156.There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world.
Unknown
157.It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
158.You will not accept your childs death until you have completed the healing.
Hurt, anguish, tears, yearning, pining are part of the healing.
Brown
159.Each lost child is precious.
We feel each loss acutely, however we have suffered it.
Elaine Storkey
162.No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Arthur Honegger
165.Theres no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.
Amy Sedaris
168.The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.
Thom Jones
170.A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered.
Lacie Petitto
171.Until one has loved an animal, a part of ones soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
172.What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Charles Dickens
173.His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.
Leo Dworken
176.Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud
177.Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless hes owned a dog.
Gene Hill
178.How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Winnie The Pooh
179.Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
182.I want to extend my deepest sympathy.
I hope you feel surrounded by much love.
185.Words fail to express my sorrow for your loss.
c’mon know I am with you through this difficult time.
186.Sending healing prayers and comforting hugs.
May your loved ones beautiful memory remain in your hearts.
187.My heart goes out to you during this painful time.
Im praying for you, and the soul of your loved one.
188.hey know I am here to listen, comfort, and lean on during this difficult time.
189.Im sorry about your lost loved ones.
just know we are only a phone call away.
190.I hope this card finds you surrounded by strength and compassion.
193.Praying for you and your family during this difficult time.
I hope you feel the power of Gods love and His presence in your lives.
194.Praying that Gods love enfolds you and comforts you through the pain.
I hope He helps you heal from your greatest loss.
195.I was so shocked to hear about their death.
I feel deep grief and would like to give my heartfelt condolences during this challenging time.
Religious Quotes About Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ:
196.Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius
197.Keep your head up.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
Unknown
198.Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nevell Bovee
199.He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
200.God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Barrie
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