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Losing a loved one can feel like an insurmountable mountain of grief. It’s a unique journey for each individual, but finding solace in words of wisdom from others who have experienced similar pain can provide comfort during such challenging times.  In your moment of loss and suffering, quotes on the loss of a loved one may be just what you need. Losing a loved one is never easy, but hopefully, these eloquent words can help you overcome your sorrow and commemorate the life of the deceased.

Although the grief diminishes with time, it never truly disappears. Losing a loved one is difficult, but with help and guidance, it is manageable. These quotes about the loss of a loved one should aid you in your grieving process.

Did you like these sayings and quotes regarding the death of a loved one? Which quote did you feel the most? Please share your thoughts in the comment area below.

Quotes to Provide Comfort

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us.” – Eskimo Proverb

“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Author Unknown

“I will lend you, for a little time, A child of mine, He said. For you to love the while he lives, And mourn for when he’s dead. It may be six or seven years, Or twenty-two or three. But will you, till I call him back, Take care of him for Me?”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“My Darling, I beg you, come for me and take me with you. I do not care what your circumstances are, I want to be with you anywhere. My heart is broken without you. With you, I’ll be happy again.”

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

“Grief is a form of love. It is the past-up love you can no longer give or share, and it is the loss of the love you can no longer receive”.

Short Grief Quotes

“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.”

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

“Grief is itself a medicine.”

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.”

Powerful Quotes About Losing a Loved One

1. “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.”– Anne L. de Stael

2. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou

3. “Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” – Unknown

4. “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” ― Madeline Miller

5. “The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.”– Yolanda King

6. “The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but hedoesn’tt give ye a mother but once.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe

7. Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.—Euripides

8. “In life, we loved you dearly, In death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place, no one else will ever fill.” – Unknown

9. “Every man dies. Not every man lives.” – William Ross Wallace

10. “Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals” – Jason Reynolds

Quotes About Death Of A Loved One

11. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”– Dante

12. “I’ll be seeing you, in all the old familiar places, that this heart of mine embraces, all day through.” – Billie Holiday

13. “Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.” —Sue Grafton

14. “He loved and was loved. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

15. “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore“The sun can break through the darkest cloud; love can brighten the gloomiest day.”— William Arthur Ward

16. “Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air.” ~Zen Teaching

17. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

18. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” –

19. “In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” – Robert Ingersoll

20. “Your legacy lives on in us, your loving family.” – Unknown

Beautiful Strong Quotes About Losing A Loved One

21. “He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.”—Sir Henry Taylor

22. “There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains.” — Unknown

23. “If you see a sunset, it’s me, smiling from behind it. If I go away far, and you see a star, if you find it, I’m inside it.” – Anna Williams

24. “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Unknown

25. “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” —Anyon Chekov

26. “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson

27. “The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

28. “Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Gloria Naylor

29. “Remember that people are only guests in your story – the same way you are only a guest in theirs – so make the chapters worth reading.” ― Lauren Klarfeld

30. “Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

Messages About Grieving And Loss

31. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

32. “When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Anonymous

33. “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” – Cassandra Clare

34. “You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And that is — it is what we do with that loss — our ability to transform it into a positive event —that is one of my father’s greatest lessons.” – Ted Kennedy Jr.

35. “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.”—Leo Tolstoy

36. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” – Charles Dickens

37. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. “May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.” – Eleesha

39. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck

40. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

Encouraging Quotes After Death Loved One

41. “Your absence walks through the door every single day.” – Helen Lyon

42. “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” – Gail Caldwell

43. “He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

44. “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.” – Patrick Swayze

45. “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom

46. “The years may pass but you will stay… as near and dear as yesterday” – Unknown

47. “Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!”—Ludwig Jacobowski

48. “And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.’” – Unknown

49. “I can’t and won’t forget all you did for me. The memories of you will never fade.” – Unknown

50. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”—C.S. Lewis

Sudden Death Of A Loved One Quotes

51. “Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” ― Pablo Neruda

52. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin

53. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” — Mitch Albom

54. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

55. “Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.” — Anna Quindlen

56. “Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.” ― Katherine Owen

57. “Healing takes time and you are doing the best you can and that is perfect.” – Unknown

58. “I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love.”– Anonymous

59. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

60. “The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you” – Dean Jackson

Inspirational Quotes After Losing A Loved One

61. “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” — Leo Buscaglia

62. “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” —Richard Bach

63. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”—C. S. Lewis

64. “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”― Gail Caldwell

65. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” – Tupac Shakur

66. “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His burden in his way.” – Anne Morrow

67. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

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69. “All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.” ― Michael McDowell

70. “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.”– Kahlil Gibran

Quotes for Coping with the Loss

71. “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.”– Norman Cousins

72. “Everything feels so surreal when you are gone. Oh, if only you knew the things I’d do just to be able to see you once more.” – Unknown

73. “Sometimes the strong die, too.”– Louis Gosset Jr.

74. “Absence and death are the same, only that in death there is no suffering.” – Theodore Roosevelt

75. “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”—William Penn

76. “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.”—Leo Buscaglia

77. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weaknes, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving

78. “All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control.” —Katie Kacvinsky

79. “What do you say? There are no words for that. There aren’t. Somebody tries to say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.’ People say that to me. There’s no language for it. Sorry doesn’t do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.” — Toni Morrison

80. “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”—Thornton Wilder

Solace in Strong Quotes

81. “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” — Joni Mitchell

82. “Losing someone when you’re young is the greatest pain anyone can face.” – Amory Blaine

83. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”—Sophocles

84. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.”—Anonymous

85. “Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones” ― Munia Khan

86. “Memories… let them fill your mind, warm your heart, and lead you through.” – Unknown

87. “Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks.” – Unknown

88. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” – C.S. Lewis

89. “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” ― Sarah Dessen

90. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”—A.A. Milne

Emotions Quotes

91. “We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” – J. W.

92. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

93. “Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful “I miss you” – Richelle E. Goodrich

94. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” — Helen Keller

95. “As long as we live, they too will live, for they are now a part of us, as We remember them.” – Proverb

96. “Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren will be. But we learn to live in that love.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

97. “How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson

98. “The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” – Demoustier

99. “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”– Bessie Anderson Stanley

100. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

101. “Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!” – Latoya Alston

102. “You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to FEEL the loss.” – Mandy Hale

It is one of the worst experiences a person can have. Even though death occurs frequently in life, it is nevertheless difficult to cope with. Healing from the loss of a loved one takes time, and each individual’s path to recovery is unique. Everyone is unique, and sometimes the path can appear to be too much to take.

When this occurs, we should remember to be grateful for the time we had with our loved ones and take comfort in the fact that they are now in a better place. Losing a loved one is never easy, but having the proper support and direction can help you get through it. Life must continue, and you will mature and learn to deal with the loss.

What are your favorite quotes concerning the loss of a loved one? Losing a loved one is among the most excruciating experiences. It is one of the worst things that you will ever encounter. It is never easy to realize that your loved ones will not be there to enjoy life with you.

Heartfelt Emotions

Grieving is a natural and necessary process when we lose someone dear to us. It’s okay to feel a whirlwind of emotions, from sadness to anger to confusion. Allow yourself to embrace these feelings and remember that it’s a testament to the love you shared with the departed.

Resilience Through Reflection

In moments of deep sorrow, reflecting on memories shared with the person we’ve lost can be both heartbreaking and healing. It’s in these moments of reflection that we find the strength to carry on, knowing that their presence lives on in our hearts and minds.

While the pain of losing a loved one may never fully dissipate, it’s essential to remember that you are not alone in your grief. Draw comfort from the words of others who have walked a similar path and find solace in the memories that bind you to the one you’ve lost.