Quotes on Loss Loved One Inspirational

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A human life is a story told by God.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

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

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

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

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

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.