Death Quotes
~ Comforting The Wounded Heart ~

Losing a loved one is the hardest time of one’s life. Let these death quotes, grief quotes and sympathy quotes alleviate your pain and stress.

I often visits Yahoo Answers and read situations where people lost their loved one and asking for quotes to ease their grief.

Yes, indeed. No one could ever accept the fact that the one that is so close to them is no longer here anymore. It’s just too overwhelming and difficult to deal with a sudden death.

However, as quoted from Moliere: “If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble”.

So don’t hide your sadness. Lay your head on your family or friend’s shoulder (or mine) and let the tears flow. Read and reread the loss and death quotes here or share them with the one you know who suffered from a loss.

Remember that your loved one will always wish for your happiness. So be strong, take care of yourself and be grateful for all the nice moments and memories you two had.

“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)

- DEATH QUOTES -

Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Robert Benchley quotes

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Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
E. H. Chapin

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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
Randy K. Milholland

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

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There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle

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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
Mother Teresa

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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
Jelaluddin Rumi

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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Albert Einstein

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The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mignon McLaughlin

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.
Eileen Elias Freeman

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Heaven is a place nearby, so there’s no need to say good bye.
Lene Marlin



- GRIEF QUOTES -

Grief is the price we pay for love
Elizabeth II

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Grief is itself a medicine.
William Cowper

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Time is a physician that heals every grief.
Diphius

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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

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Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.
Harold Kushner

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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth KublerRoss

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As you comprehend this profound loss, let yourself cry knowing each tear is a note of love rising to the heavens.
Unknown

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I would say to those who mourn... look upon each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Do not suppress it. Never attempt to hide grief.
Daphne du Maurier

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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
Dean Koontz

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We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
Marcel Proust

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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Chinese Proverbs

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The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
Helen Keller

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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Samuel Johnson

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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
St. Thomas Aquinas



- SYMPATHY QUOTES -

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
Unknown

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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it's letting go.
Unknown

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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens

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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
William Cowper

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I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank

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The journey is the reward.
Tao Saying

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However long the night, the dawn will break.
African Proverb

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If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time.
Beth Mende Conny

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Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.
George W. Bush

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The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder

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Perhaps they are not 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.
Eskimo proverb

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While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
John Taylor

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If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
The Crow

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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn

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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.
Leo Buscaglia

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What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.
Helen Keller

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Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.
James Whitcomb Riley

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