50 Losing a Loved One Quotes for When Words Are Hard
Losing someone you love is never easy, so we have put together a list of all the best quotes about losing a loved one to help bring some comfort.
And if you’re looking for short grief quotes or messages to share, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Losing a Loved One Quotes
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” — Richard Puz
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option.” — Bob Marley
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II
“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart.” — Valerie Frankel
“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” — Hebrew Proverb
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the way life is.” — Hugh Laurie
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” — Dylan Thomas
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” — Kristina McMorris
“Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind.” — William Wordsworth
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck
“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone—you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” — Alyson Noel
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” — John Green
“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” — Jodi Picoult
“The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life – I can’t forget the pain.” — Frank Lowry
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.” — Mitch Albom
“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush.” — Max Porter
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” — José N. Harris
“Death is not extinguishing the light, it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“May love be what you remember most.” — Darcie Sims
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” — Ranata Suzuki
“The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.” — Sarah J. Maas
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” — Terri Guillemets
“Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.” — Unknown
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Kahlil Gibran
“I could only be grateful when I realized that I would rather have known you for a moment than never at all. I would rather endure this inexplicable pain of outliving you than to have never seen your face, spoken your name.” — Lexi Behrndt
“Nobody ever gets over losses like that. It’s just part of your broken heart forever.” — Cheryl Strayed
Comforting quotes after losing a loved one
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” — Jack Thorne
“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.” — Kahlil Gibran
“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.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” — William Shakespeare
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine
“There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world.” — Unknown
“As long as we live, they too will live, for they are now a part of us, as we remember them.” — Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” — Irving Berlin
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone, the light remains.” — Unknown
“To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever.” — Jeanette Winterson
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” — Sufi Proverb
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” — Anne Roiphe
“They may be gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.” — Unknown
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” — A.A. Milnene
