Lost Loved Ones Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Sympathy, Memories

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

  John Henry Newman

  Sympathy, Condolences, Angel

  John Henry Newman (1837). “Lyra apostolica”, p.29

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

  Rita Schiano

  Sympathy, Grief, Healing

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Tattoo, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Grief, Heaven

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

  Anton Chekhov

  Peace, Inspiration, Losing A Loved One

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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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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• 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, Losing A Loved One, Fighting

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

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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. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Real

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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  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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10

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

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Walter Scott

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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  There is no death, only a change of worlds.

  Chief Seattle

  Change, Sympathy, Native American

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

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