LITERARY QUOTES ABOUT DEATH OF A LOVED ONE

“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself.” – Jonathan Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.” – Francis Bacon

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.” – C.S. Lewis

“The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“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. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.” – Storm Jameson

“Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” – J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“Death is the end of sorrow and the beginning of life.” – Leo Tolstoy SILENT PERSON IS DANGEROUS QUOTES

“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.” – Mary Elizabeth Frye

“The depth of sorrow can never be known by anyone else.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

“One day you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – James M. Barrie, “Peter Pan”

“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – C. JoyBell C.

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

“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King”