Losing the love of your life to death quotes

“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.”

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler

“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.”

“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”

“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”

“Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.”

“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.”

“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.”

“Grief can destroy you — or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.”

Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

“At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.”

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel

“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.”

John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days…”

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

“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.”

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”

Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.”

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”

“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”

Diamond Rio, 'One More Day'

“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

Meghan O’Rourke, Story’s End

"I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, 'Look: She existed.'" — Meghan O’Rourke, Story’s End

Clarence Budington Kelland

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” — Clarence Budington Kelland

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”— C.S. Lewis

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” — Korean Proverb

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” — Khalil Gibran

“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

C.S. Lewis, 'A Grief Observed'

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Return of the King'

“I will not say:

Do not weep;

For not all tears are evil.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

"Grief is itself a medicine." — William Cowper

"Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones." — Proverb

"I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too." — Chloe Woodward

"Our grief is as individual as our lives." — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"We get no choice. If we love, we grieve." — Thomas Lynch

"We need never be afraid of our tears." — Charles Dickens

“Tears are the silent language of grief.” — Voltaire

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." — Alphonse de Lamartine

"Grief is just love with no place to go." — Jamie Anderson

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.” — Anne Frank

“You will be with whom you love.” — Prophet Muhammad

“To Him we belong and to Him we return.” — Quran 2:156

“Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.” — Mitch Albom

“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

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” — Haruki Murakami

"In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams ... that is where you and I shall meet." — Lewis Carroll

“Don't run away from grief, o’ soul Look for the remedy inside the painbecause the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.” — Rumi

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