Quotes about Losing a Loved One to Cope With the Grief

The loss of a loved one is one such phase of life that is not redeemable. Sometimes the absence of one person from this world makes everything meaningless and empty. Here are some heart-touching quotations to express your grief, sadness, and sympathy for the loss of your loved ones.

These heart-wrenching quotes about losing a loved (with images and pictures) one might be exactly what you need in your time of grief and unsaid suffering which is not easy to express.

Famous Quotes About Losing a Loved One

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.”
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.” — C. S. Lewis
“You did not die. You simply went ahead of us. We love you.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“The dead never truly die. They simply change form.” ― Suzy Kassem
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”—Rumi
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell
“Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.”– Sir Walter Scott
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”– Kalil Gibran
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
“All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.” ― Michael McDowell
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated. — Allphonse de Lamartine
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” ― Jack Thorne
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.”— Elizabeth Berrien
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish headstone
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” —Kristina McMorris

Loss of Dad Quotes and Sayings

“A father may pass on but his thoughts, hopes and dreams live on in us.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wordsworth
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”- Mitch Albom
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”- Linda Poindexter
“The death of a parent is rarely expected and never accepted.”- Shane Pendley
“The loss of one’s father marks one of the most profound rites of passage in our life.”
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”- Anne Sexton
“No matter wherever he is, he’ll always be watching over you. He will stay with you forever.”
“There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child.”- Jennifer Williamson
“The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.”
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.”- Clarence Budington Kelland
“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.”- Niccolo Machiavelli
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” ― Madeline Miller
“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.”- Joel Osteen
“Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.”- Sam Sheppard
“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.”
“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” Eskimo Proverb
“Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad’s footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.”
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

Loss of Spouse Quotes (Husband/Wife/Partner)

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. — Terri Guillemets
If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again.
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face—I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. — Nicholas Sparks
“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” — Anyon Chekov
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.

Bible Quotes About Losing a Loved One to Death

Philippians 1:3 -“ I thank my God in all my remembrance of you.”
Psalm 147:3 -“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
Matthew 5:4 -“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
Psalm 116:15 – “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
Psalm 34:18 -“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
1 Corinthians 15:22 -“For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
2 Timothy 4:7 -“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
2 Corinthians 1:3 -“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.”
John 11:25 – “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”
John 16:22 -“So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.”

Short Grief Quotes About Losing a Loved One

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II
“Be the things, you loved most about the people who are gone.”
“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”— Thomas Campbell
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”— J.M. Barrie
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.” –Anne Frank
“When someone you love becomes a memory…that memory becomes a treasure.”
“My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean’s edge as I can go” –Henry David Thoreau
“There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” –John Steinbeck
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” –Alphonse de Lamartine
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” — Winnie the Pooh
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”— Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” –Helen Keller
“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…that is where you and I shall meet.”— Alice Through the Looking Glass
“Perhaps they are not the stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.”
“This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy.”— Nicholas Sparks
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”— Leo Buscaglia
“My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love.”
“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.”

Heart-Wrenching Quotes About Losing a Loved One

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.” —C. S. Lewis
“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” —Euripides
“Do not stand at my grave and cry I am not there. I did not die.”
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on…” –Irving Berlin
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” —Winston Churchill
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ”—Rumi
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” —Kristina McMorris
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” —Terri Guillemets
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” —Madeline Miller
“Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.” —Allphonse de Lamartine
“If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again.”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” —Sarah Dessen
“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
“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.” —Eva Ibbotson
“For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.” —Lurlene McDaniel
“It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive. ”—John Scalzi
“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
“It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.” —Anonymous
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.” —Anna White
“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