Quotes on Lost Loved Ones

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

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.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

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

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

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.

A human life is a story told by God.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

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

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