quotes about Losing A Loved One
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You never know what you have till you've lost it.
-- Alyson Noel -
The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.
-- Antoinette BoscoSource : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
-- Haruki Murakami -
After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
-- Helen Steiner RiceSource : Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.
-- Mitch Albom -
Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
-- Mitch Albom -
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
-- Paulo Coelho -
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Gone, but not forgotten.
-- Phillip MargolinSource : Phillip Margolin (2012). “Gone, But Not Forgotten”, p.8, Doubleday
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Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
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My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.
-- Jermaine O'Neal -
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.
-- Jay Neugeboren