Mourning Loss Quotes

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

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.

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

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.

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.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

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.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

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

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

The only cure for grief is action.

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

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.