When someone finds the exact words that capture a universal feeling, like sadness or grief, or the painful feeling of missing someone we love who’s died, it brings us a sense of comfort and a feeling that we aren’t alone. Feeling connected during grief is essential to the healing process. Below are some quotes that are helpful on a personal level just in the comfort they bring to you in reading them. Others are valuable for sharing with others such as in your funeral service or eulogy or funeral speech.
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Best quotes on loss
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” —Emily Dickinson
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How lucky am I to have had something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — Winnie the Pooh
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”—Kahlil Gibran
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” —Thomas Campbell
"Grief is the price we pay for love." —Queen Elizabeth II
"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
"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." —Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." —Dr. Seuss
"Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness that he was." —Hebrew proverb
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone” ― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
“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. 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.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and david Kessler
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.” —Irving Berlin
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” —JM Barrie
“The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”— Cheryl Strayed
"We get no choice. If we love, we grieve." —Thomas Lynch
"Grief is just love with no place to go." —Jamie Anderson
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.” —Katharine Weber
“Inner beauty is everything 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 light is from within.” —Elizabeth Kubler Ross
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives.” —Alan Sachs
'“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” —Rumi
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices.
“When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.” Cherokee proverb
Best Quotes on the loss of a Mother
“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
“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
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” – C.S. Lewis
“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.” – Mitch Albom
Best Quotes on the Loss of a Father
“A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart.” – Jennifer Williamson
“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
“Your absence walks through the door every single day.” – Helen Lyon
“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kellan
Best Quotes on the Loss of a Spouse
“One more time. One more sunset, maybe I’d be satisfied. But then again, I know what it would do. Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.” —Diamond Rio, ‘One More day with You’
"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes - when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever - there comes another day, and another specifically missing part." —John Irving
“I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too." —Chloe Woodward
“Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.” ― Ally Carter
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson