100 Heart-Wrenching & Powerful Quotes About Losing A Loved One

"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love."

By Lorenzo Jensen III

Updated 7 years ago, January 14, 2018

26.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

—Jane Wilson-Howarth

27.

Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.

—Avis Corea

28.

I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

—Jessica Maria Tuccelli

29.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

—Iris Murdoch

30.

When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

—Anonymous

31.

Death wasn’t a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.

—Soheir Khashoggi

32.

Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels….

—Rosamund Lupton

33.

We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.

—Elizabeth Berrien

34.

Death—the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

—Walter Scott

35.

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me.

—Lisa Goich

36.

In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see the hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

—Ann Weems

37.

He died when he was only nineteen years old. I was still a baby at the time, so I didn’t remember him. Growing up, I’d always told myself that was lucky. Because you can’t miss someone you don’t remember. But the truth was, I did miss him.

—Ernest Cline

38.

Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air.

—Buddhist Saying

39.

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. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

—Steve Jobs

40.

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

41.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
–Dr. Seuss

42.

How do you go on knowing that you will never again—not ever, ever—see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

—Howard Jacobson

43.

Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’
–Anna Laetitia Barbauld

44.

Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.

—Crystal Evans

45.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

—Jimmy Iovine

46.

Perhaps they are not the 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.

—Anonymous

47.

May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.

—Eleesha

48.

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.

—Rita Mae Brown

49.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

—Aeschylus

50.

I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.

—Melissa Kantor