Death And Loss Quotes

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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.

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

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.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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

The light has gone out of my life.

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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.

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

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.