Comfort Loss Quotes

• 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.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Sympathy, Memories

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• 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

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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

  Liane Moriarty

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

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

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Love, Sympathy, Death

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

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• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Nature, Animal

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• There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

  Solomon

  Bible, Dance, Biblical

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

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

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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  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

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  There is no death, only a change of worlds.

  Chief Seattle

  Change, Sympathy, Native American

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

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• 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

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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