Death And Loss Quotes:

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

topic: Strength, Time, Flower, Inspirational Bereavement, Our Condolences

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Sympathy, Memories, Knowing, Inspirational Condolences, Memory Loss

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

- Thomas Campbell

topic: Prayer, Condolences, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Death, Ends, Endless Love, Everlasting Love, Meaningful Death

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

- Norman Cousins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Heartbreak, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Condolences

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

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

topic: Sympathy, Death, Lost Love, Inspirational Mourning, Love Grows

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

- William Penn

source: Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

topic: Sympathy, Death, Love Is, Inspirational Condolences, Memorial For Loved One

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Friendship, Grief, Healing, Making Friends, Bff

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

- Rita Schiano

topic: Sympathy, Water, Tears, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Mourning

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Woody Allen

source: "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Afraid Of Death, Meaningful Death

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

- Walter Scott

topic: Death, Sleep, Loss, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Sea, Rivers, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Grief

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-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

- Rossiter W. Raymond

source: Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

topic: Sympathy, Death, Military, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

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.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

- Chief Seattle

source: Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

topic: Change, Native American, Psychics, Indian Wisdom, Meaningful Death

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

source: Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

topic: Sympathy, Death, Depressing, Meaningful Death, Memorial For Loved One

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

- William Penn

topic: Sympathy, Death, Time, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace, Spiritual Light, Memorial For Loved One

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

topic: Sad, Sympathy, Stars, Sorrow Love, Meaningful Death

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

topic: Death, Fate, Ides Of March, Someone Dying, Death And Dying

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

- Perry Brass

topic: Hurt, Loss, Thinking, Death And Loss

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Wherever You Are, Inspirational Condolences

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or 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 A Grollman

source: Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

topic: Spiritual, Grief, Emotional, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

- Jack Kornfield

source: Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

topic: Pain, Fighting, Buddhism, Death And Loss, Pain Death

When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

source: Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

topic: Uplifting, Morning, Stars, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Sympathy

I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part . . . I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control.

- Joan Didion

topic: Crazy, Mean, Loss, Death And Loss

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

topic: Death, Travel, Adventure, Meaningful Death, Memorable Harry Potter

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

- Karen White

topic: Memories, Heart, Loss, Levees, Death And Loss

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

- Dylan Thomas

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Death

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

topic: Sad, Losing A Loved One, Fighting, Loss Of A Loved One, Lost Loved Ones

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Sorry, Grief, Loss, Death And Loss, Afghan

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Death, Connections, Afternoon, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

The light has gone out of my life.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Loss, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy Messages