quotes about Death Of A Loved One

last updated: November 28, 2023

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
-- Billy Graham

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Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1915). “The James Whitcomb Riley Reader: Selected, Graded, and with the Suggestions for the Observance of Riley Day”

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We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.
-- Philip Toshio Sudo

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“There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.”
“They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.”
“Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.”
“Seeing how many people in our world today are focused on doing good in this world for others, especially in the younger generation and how passionate they feel about making a difference. What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.”
“Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.”
“The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.”

Source : "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.
“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
“People have become educated, but have not become human.”
“It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed [..]....”

Source : Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.99, Basic Books
“I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.”

Source : George Ella Lyon (2012). “Holding On to Zoe”, p.9, Macmillan