Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?
Sep 25, 2025
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
Gone, but not forgotten.
You never know what you have till you've lost it.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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.
For some moments in life there are no words.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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.
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
Grief is itself a medicine.
Grief makes one hour ten.
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
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.
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.
Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so.
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Beautiful people do not just happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
The only cure for grief is action.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.
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.