Loved One Dying Quotes:

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

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

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

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Death, Afraid Of Death, Not Afraid Of Death

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

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Flower, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- Andrew Sachs

topic: Death, Life Death, Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One

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

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

- Helen Keller

topic: Death, Rooms, Passing, Inspirational Death, Death And Dying

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

- Willa Cather

topic: Life, Death, Spiritual, Loss Of A Loved One, Loved One Dying

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

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- William Wallace

topic: Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One, Death Anniversary, Death Remembrance

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

topic: Sympathy, Death, Sweet, Sweet Death, Affirmative

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

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

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the star shine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

source: "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning, Ripening, Inspirational Bereavement

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

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Birthday, Lasts, Eternity, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Mourning

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

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

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Broken Heart, Death, Fall, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

- Anthony Marra

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Children, Sadness, Addiction, Terminal Illness, Loved One Dying