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Top 99 Quotes For Mourning A Loved One

When we lose a loved one, it can be incredibly difficult to find the right words to express our sorrow and grief. Sometimes, the words of others can provide comfort and solace during this difficult time. Here are the top 99 quotes for mourning a loved one:

1. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
2. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
3. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
4. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
5. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
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. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
8. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear.” – Unknown
9. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler
10. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
11. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
12. “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
13. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
14. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
15. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
16. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
17. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
18. “The dead are not dead but alive in my heart.” – Unknown
19. “The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.” – Unknown
20. “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
21. “The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace they bring will comfort you.” – Unknown
22. “The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.” – Ama H. Vanniarachchy
23. “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Unknown
24. “The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.” – Robert Southey
25. “As you comprehend this profound loss, let yourself cry knowing each tear is a note of love rising to the heavens.” – Unknown
26. “No one ever truly dies as long as they leave behind a legacy of love and memories.” – Unknown
27. “The heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb
28. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami
29. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri
30. “The dead are never far from us, they’re in our hearts and in our thoughts, they’re in our stories and in the things that remind us of them.” – Unknown
31. “I have not lost a sister, I am simply experiencing a temporary separation from someone I will see again.” – Unknown
32. “To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die.” – Thomas Campbell
33. “He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
34. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
35. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
36. “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
37. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
38. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either.” – Unknown
39. “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” – Maurice Maeterlinck
40. “The greater the love, the greater the loss.” – Unknown
41. “To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.” – Samuel Butler
42. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
43. “The hardest part of losing someone isn’t having to say goodbye, but rather learning to live without them.” – Unknown
44. “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean Cocteau
45. “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
46. “Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
47. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
48. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler
49. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
50. “When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time.” – John Irving
51. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin
52. “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
53. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
54. “The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.” – Unknown
55. “You are not alone in this. Everyone experiences it. The difference is how we deal with it.” – Unknown
56. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
57. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” – John Steinbeck
58. “The loss of love is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
59. “The loss of a friend is like that of a limb