Words in Memory of Freind Passing L When You Dont Know What to Say

Here are 64 (Shhh! There are really 63) quotes almost grief, coping and life after loss. Although we love a expert grief quote, Litsa and I were slow to join in on the quote-pic phenomenon.  The Net just seemed plastered with inspirational platitudes pasted on pictures of sunsets and rainbows. Information technology all seemed so trite and reductive we decided not to add to the noise.  Then we got over ourselves.   A good quote serves many purposes.  A quote helps usa put our own thoughts and feelings into perspective, it allows usa to apply the words of others to communicate or to convey a bulletin, and information technology helps us to feel a sense of commonality when we find our feelings, experiences, and observations match those of another. We promise something here resonates with you and experience free to steal and share whatever of these images with your grieving family and friends.

"The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with; Nothing brings it all to life like an quondam mix tape. It does a better task of storing up memories than bodily encephalon tissue can practice. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life."

~ Rob Sheffield, Honey is a Mix Tape

"To live in hearts we exit backside is not to die."

~ Thomas Campbell

"When I call up of death, and of late the thought has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a mean solar day will dawn when I no longer be amongst those living in this valley of strange humors.

I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else.

I find it impossible to let a friend or relative become into that country to no return.

Atheism becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake.

I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is here in my center and mind and memories.'"

~ Maya Angelou, When I Think of Death

"At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summertime, we remember them."

~ Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

"Do you not know that a homo is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

~ Terry Pratchett

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and property on."

~ Havelock Ellis

"God gave us retention and so that we might have roses in December."

~ J.M. Barrie

"Information technology'southward so curious; Ane tin can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But and then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or 1 notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses."

~ Colette

"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just requite me a happy center and a very happy start."

~ Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It

"Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, y'all would never come across the beauty of their canyons."

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Walk on, walk on with hope in your centre and you'll never walk lone."

~ Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel

"On this bald hill the new year's day hones its border.

Faceless and pale every bit china

The round sky goes on minding its business.

Your absence is inconspicuous,

Nobody tin tell what I lack."

~ Sylvia Plath, Parliament Hill Fields

"Everyone must go out something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A kid or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built of a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you lot die, and when people wait at that tree or that flower you planted, you're at that place."

~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"When nosotros have joy we crave to share; We remember them."

~ Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

"Brand the well-nigh of your regrets; Never smother your sorrow, only tend and cherish it 'til it comes to accept a separate and integral interest. To regret securely is to live afresh."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"I'll be seeing you

In all the old familiar places

That this heart of mine embraces

All twenty-four hour period through."

~ Billie Holiday, I'll Be Seeing Yous

"One more than day

Ane more than time

I more dusk, possibly I'd be satisfied

But and so again

I know what information technology would exercise

Get out me wishing notwithstanding, for one more solar day with you."

~ Diamond Rio

"You gave me a forever within the numbered days…"

~ John Dark-green, The Mistake In Our Stars

"I would e'er 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'due south End

"14 years.

My longest relationship.

My just experience of maternal love.

My abiding companon.

My best friend.

Duck."

~ Sarah Silverman on her dog, Duck

"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

"Look closely and you will see near anybody carrying bags of cement on their shoulders.

That's why it takes courage to get out of bed in the morn and climb into the twenty-four hour period."

~ Edward Hirsch

"Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I experience like it ultimately made me into the person I am today. I sympathise the journeying of life. I had to go through what I did to be here."

~ Mariska Hargity

"My father didn't tell me how to alive; he lived, and permit me watch him do it."

~ Clarence Budington Kelland

"No i ever told me that grief felt so like fright."

~ C.S. Lewis

"Ain't no shame in property on to grief… as long as y'all make room for other things too."

~ "Bubbling," The Wire

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, merely could sit down with Information technology as a lasting companion and make information technology a sharer in her thoughts."

~ George Eliot

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and autonomously: The secret anniversaries of the heart."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When a child dies, yous bury the child in your heart."

~ Korean Maxim

"If I die earlier you

which is all but sure

and then in the moment

earlier you volition come across me

become someone dead

in a transformation

as quick as a shooting star's

I will cross over into you lot

and ask you to acquit

non only your ain memories

but mine too until you

too prevarication down and erase us

both together into oblivion."

~ Galway Kinnell

"It's coming on Christmas

They're cut downwardly trees

They're putting up reindeer

And singing songs of joy and peace

Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on."

~ Joni Mitchell

"Promise

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'It will be happier'…"

~ Alfred Tennyson

"When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights go darker than a thou midnights, let usa call back that there is a creative strength in this universe, working to pull downward the gigantic mountains of evil, a ability that is able to make a way out of no mode and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows."

~ Martin Luther Rex Jr.

"When y'all die, it does not mean that you lot lose to cancer. You crush cancer past how you lot live, why you live, and in the manner in which you lot live."

~ Stuart Scott

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can comprise."

~ Khalil Gibran

"Grief sucks."

~ Everyone Ever

"It takes forcefulness to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward."

~ Patti Davis

"The healing ability of fifty-fifty the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking near because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated."

~ Cheryl Strayed

"What separates us from animals, what separates u.s. from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met."

~ David Levithan

"Someday before long, we all will be together

If the fates allow

Until so,

Nosotros'll have to muddle through somehow."

"No man e'er steps in the aforementioned river twice, for it Is not the same river and he is not the aforementioned human."

~ Heraclitus

"Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift kick to the shin."

"Well, every 1 can master a grief but he that has it."

~ William Shakespeare

"So when you need her impact

And loving gaze

Gone but not forgotten

Is the perfect phrase

Smile from a star

That she makes glow

Trust she'south always there

Watching equally y'all grow

Detect her in the place

Where the lost things get."

~ The Place Where Lost Things Go, Mary Poppin Returns

"If there ever comes a day where nosotros tin can't exist together, proceed me in your heart. I'll stay there forever."

~ A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"The whole world tin can become the enemy when y'all lose what you dearest."

~ Kristina McMorris, Span of Scarlett Leaves

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

~ C.Due south. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I will not say: Practice not week; For not all tears are evil."

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

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You lot will non 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself effectually the loss y'all have suffered. You will exist whole over again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

"Give the sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits upwards the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"The song is ended, but the tune lingers on."

~ Irving Berlin

"When he shall dice,

Take him and cutting him out in little stars,

And he volition brand the confront of heaven so fine,

That all the globe will be in dear with night,

And pay no worship to the garish sun."

~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"The boundaries which divide Life from Expiry are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Sometimes, simply one personn is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

~ Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations Poétiques

"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with united states, and accept with u.s.a.."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal beliefs."

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"Simply there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer."

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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

~ William Penn

"Life has to end.

Love doesn't."

~ Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"And one time the tempest is over yous won't think you how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is actually over. But one thing is certain. When y'all come out of the storm you lot won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm's all nearly."

~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"What we in one case enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

~ Helen Keller

Feb 10, 2015

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