Mourning Loss Quotes:

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Death, Gratitude, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

- Isaiah

topic: Rest In Peace, Lying, Mourning, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Death

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

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

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Grief, Grieving, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

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

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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

- Arthur Golden

source: Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House

topic: Grief, Grieving, One Day, Memories Of A Geisha, Mourning A Loss

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Grief, Love You, Grieving, Inspirational Mourning, Mourning A Loss

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

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief, Inspirational Mourning, Cried

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

- William C. Bryant

source: William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

topic: Sympathy, Grief, Should Have, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Loss

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

- Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

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

The only cure for grief is action.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

topic: Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Stages Of Grief

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

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

- Kenji Miyazawa

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

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

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

- Roger Caras

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

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Change, Loss, Grieving, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Loss

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

- Edwin S. Shneidman

source: Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

topic: Memories, Loss, Grieving, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Loss

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

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Death