Healing From Loss Quotes

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.

Rita Mae Brown

Single, Thankful, Gratitude

Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

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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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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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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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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Sympathy, Death, Memories

Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

Anne Lamott

Hurt, Grief, Heart

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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Viktor E. Frankl

Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

Love, Friendship, Pain

"Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

Strength, Sympathy, Time

William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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

Thornton Wilder

Death, Gratitude, Grief

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The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Change, Grief, Learning

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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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Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

William Wordsworth

Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.

William Penn

Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

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

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief, Healing, Grieving

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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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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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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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Love, Inspirational, Life

c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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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.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Friendship, True Friend, Grief

"Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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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.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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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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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

Friendship, Pain, True Friend

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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