Lost Someone Quotes:

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

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

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Lost Someone

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

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom, Painful Things, Special Relationship

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Spiritual, Make You Cry, Someone Dying

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

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Positive, Happiness, Times Have Changed, Ready For Change

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

- Liane Moriarty

source: Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

topic: Going Away, Someone You Miss, Missed You, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

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

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

- Lee Radziwill

topic: Deep Love, Thinking, Grieving, Lost Someone

Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.

- Tori Amos

topic: Strong, Needs, Today, Lost Someone

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Best Friend, Brother, Actors, Lost Someone

I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel." - Does it get easier? "Yes. But you'll never be the same again.

- Richelle Mead

topic: Doe, How You Feel, Easier, Lost Someone

I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. “I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn’t say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can’t get those years back. But maybe if I hadn’t been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra… stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Stress, Mean, Years, Lost Someone

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

- Mindy Kaling

source: "Mindy Kaling Loves Rom Coms (And Being The Boss)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2017.

topic: Cancer, Struggle, Trying, Lost Someone

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Death, Grief, Loss, Lost Someone

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

- Clive Barker

source: Clive Barker (1984). “Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volumes One, Two and Three”

topic: Phrases, World, Realizing, Lost Someone, Small World

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

topic: Sad, Losing A Loved One, Loss, Lost Someone, One More Day

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Grief, Sadness, Love Is, Lost Someone, Sneaky

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Lost Someone, Missed Opportunity

I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor”, p.28, Macmillan

topic: Loss, Opportunity, Joy, Lost Someone

Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about who you are, you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope.

- Charlie Kaufman

source: "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". Speech for BAFTA, www.bafta.org. 30 September 2011.

topic: Lonely, Writing, Years, Lost Someone

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

- Robert Plant

topic: Luxury, Goes On, Wealth, Lost Someone