Lost Ones Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• '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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• When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Love, Relationship, Sympathy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.60, 谷月社

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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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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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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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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• 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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• Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Death, Good Night, Morning

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.175, Broadview Press

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

  Liane Moriarty

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

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

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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