Losing A Loved One Quotes - Page 3

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

  Ruth Graham

  Grief, Flower, Thinking

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• If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Inspirational, Moving On

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• We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Sad, Death, Children

  "Elizabeth Edwards: In Her Own Words" by Sarah Netter, abcnews.go.com. December 7, 2010.

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  You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Grief, Cry

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• 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

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• 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.

  Mitch Albom

  Sad, Fighting, Lost Ones

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

  Mitch Albom

  Games, Starting Over, Boards

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• 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?

  Amy Tan

  Someone You Love, Wonder, Lost

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.80, Penguin

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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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• Grief is itself a medicine.

  William Cowper

  Death, Pain, Grief

  Charity

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

  David McCullough

  Husband, Grief, Writing

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• 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.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sympathy, Morning, Spring

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell

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• 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

  Love, Grief, Grieving

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 01, 2011

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• 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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• Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Angel, Saint, Spirit

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• Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

  Socrates

  Life, Death, Cheer

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• Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

  Antonio Porchia

  Grief, Men, Grieving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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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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• 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

  Sympathy, Death, Lost Love

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.

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