Quotes About Losing A Loved One: Words to Express Your Sadness

1. "You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them." – Mahatma Gandhi

2. "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." – Arthur Schopenhauer

3. "While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil." – John Taylor

4. "As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss." - Cassandra Clare

5. "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." – G.K. Chesterton

6. "Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." – Eskimo Proverb

7. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." - Thomas Campbell

8. "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts." – Charles Dickens

9. "I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures." – Gail Caldwell

10. "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." - From an Irish Headstone

1. "You don't know how easy death is. It's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever." – Eloisa James

2. "All things grow with time, except grief." —Jewish proverb

3. "As long as we live, they too will live, for they are now a part of us, as We remember them." – Proverb

4. "The song has ended but the melody lingers on." – Irving Berlin

5. "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." —Leo Buscaglia

6. "Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other." —Jandy Nelson

7. "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." —A.A. Milne

8. "For some moments in life there are no words." – David Seltzer

9. "Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning." – Carrie Jones

10. "When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on." – Drew Chadwick

1. "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

2. "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." — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

3. "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever." — Winnie the Pooh

4. "In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…that is where you and I shall meet." — Alice Through the Looking Glass

5. "Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, "It Might Have Been." — George Ade

6. "Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other." — Leo Buscaglia

7. "Grief is love not wanting to let go." – Earl A. Grollman

8. "There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains." — Unknown

9. "For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats." — C.S. Lewis

10. "Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break." — Shakespeare