Loss Of Family Quotes

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”
― Rob Liano

“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
― Latoya Alston

“It is not love that keeps us stuck in the past. Love fades over time. What introspective hearts seek is simply unanswered questions about why terrible things can happen to very good people. Closure never comes from reflection. It only comes from God's guidance and promptings.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!”
― Nikita Dudani

“this loss
feels like
an ache
between my ribs

it’s sad
and scary

but soft
and steady

it’s always there
humming loudly
beneath it all

beneath it all

sometimes
it rests
and
just whispers

ssshhhhhhhh

it only takes
one
moment
of missing you
to make it roar”
― Emmy Marucci, Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

“Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no idea what.”
― Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

“That we were all so happy. It seems unimaginable. All that happiness, wrecked.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning

“Grief is like the ocean. The waves ebb and flow. Sometimes the water is calm. Other times it's turbulent. In order to survive, I had to learn to swim. In moments when I struggled with massive waves of grief, I rode it out.”
― Dana Arcuri, Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“Lazarus,” he says, his face fierce, “nothing actually goes. It transforms, but transmutation isn’t actually lost or gone at all. You were you before you had a body, and you will still be you when you no longer have one. A caterpillar might become a butterfly—and a human might become a spirit—but it is still the same essence. It has simply been transformed.”
― Laura Thalassa, Death

“The privilege of living a long life comes at a price -the increasing loss of those we know and love around us.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Gone you are and before I,
another star to beautify the sky.
Take me with you for I thirst to die,
you never did wish to see me cry”
― Lavinia Valeriana, Adrift in Acheron

“Grief is messy. It's traumatic. Devastating. Confusing. Exhausting. Grief is a natural process of our human experience. May you find comfort in these unexpected places along your journey.”
― Dana Arcuri, Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“PAIN.
The pain doesn't elevate, it shrivels. Far from improving us, it weakens us. It does not lead to sublime thoughts, it condemns people to no longer think at all.
Pain is not an ennobling privilege, quite a knocking down scourge.

LA DOULEUR.
" La douleur n’élève pas, elle ratatine. Loin de nous améliorer, elle nous amenuise. Elle ne conduit pas à des pensées sublimes, elle condamne à ne plus penser du tout.
La douleur n’a rien d’un privilège qui ennoblit, tout d’un fléau qui fout à terre. "

( Journal d'un amour perdu - 2019 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt )”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Journal d'un amour perdu

“It's hard for Jane to miss something she can't remember. Or does some part of her miss it? Might it be buried and unseen, but something on which the whole of her life rests, like the foundations of a building?”
― Kristin Cashore, Jane, Unlimited

“The smell of flowers was overwhelming, and it reminded me of walking into a flower shop to pick the perfect bouquet when my gran died. It wasn’t a good memory, and the smell was intoxicating. My heart broke while looking at the beautiful variations of flowers and smelling the sweet nectar. It was a terrible mix. The beauty, the nature, the colors, and the smell—all laced with grief. And what I could never comprehend was that flowers were for every occasion. You get them when you’re in love and when it’s your birthday; you can get them with a new job or a raise. And how is it supposed to make you feel when all you can remember is the smell of heartbreak, and it takes you back to that space in time? It doesn’t feel like a celebration of anything, but more like torture. Torture of the mind and soul.”
― Laura C. Reden, Dark Reflections

“Death simply is. It steals your breath and leaves you for another, giving you not a second thought. Like an absent father, like an emotionless lover, Death does not discriminate its victims, neither loving nor hating. And yet those left alive remain, never quite finding the lost pieces of their souls that Death casually snags along the way.”
― Deidre Huesmann, The Witchling and the Huntswoman

“We always tell ourselves that the people we love will be around forever, until one day—they aren’t anymore. And I know you’re missing them right now. That it feels like a visceral ache, deep within a part of yourself you did not know existed until the day you lost them. So today, I hope you remember that they live on within you, not just in your heart—but in the way you infuse their care and kindness into everything you do. In the way you take risks, knowing that tomorrow is not promised In the way you so courageously stay open to new possibilities, even when you feel like you simply can’t keep going. In the way you continue to love so fiercely and purely, despite knowing the terror and grief of loss. I hope you remember that even when you lose someone you love, the love you shared lives on. Their love is always with you. They are still with you.”
― Kirsten Robinson

“Something sometimes happens when someone dies, though. You're crying for the loss of that person, but for all the people you've lost before that, too.”
― Eleanor Henderson, Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage

“She didn't say so aloud, but True thought that maybe all the things she started to forget as the days passed by were only a dream away. She believed that maybe with her photo near her head, it would attract her memories of her mother like a wish to a well. That if she were lucky enough, every night those photos would make the memories of her mother that much harder to forget.”
― Alexia D. Miller, Crystal Key: Door to a New World

“Deberíamos tener un manual de instrucciones que pudiéramos abrir cuando perdemos al padre porque es una situación que cambia todas las reglas de juego.”
― Albert Espinosa, Lo que te diré cuando te vuelva a ver

“Positively Georgia's Guide to Surviving Grief aims to help teens and adults deal positively with the loss of a loved one. Georgia is an illustrated Airedale Terrier who is full of energy and inspiring ideas. Always experiencing the world with love and appreciation, Georgia steps readers through a number of ideas and strategies to heal from loss and move on to recover a happy, rewarding life”
― Elizabeth Ferris

“All my life precious people had come and gone and I was learning not to cling to anyone anymore. p273”
― Belinda Alexandra, White Gardenia

“Mr.Vanders closes his watering eyes and turns his dark face to the sun. Jane can see every fine line crisscrossing his skin and wonders if the day will come when sudden little details will stop being about Aunt Magnolia, when the lines in the face of an old person won't make her think, Aunt Magnolia will never be that old.”
― Kristin Cashore, Jane, Unlimited

“Kate Chambers, amateur sleuth in "Ground Truth: A Pittsburgh Murder Mystery," was reminded of her mother's early death when reading Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. "DEATH LIES UPON HER LIKE AN EARLY FROST UPON THE SWEETEST FLOWER OF ALL THE FIELDS.”
― ROMEO AND JULIET

“La realidad me golpeó de pronto cuando (...) me di cuenta de lo que había hecho. Durante todo este tiempo había deseado regresar a casa, con ellos, y ahora los estaba enviando de vuelta a nuestro hogar sin mí. Si existía una última oportunidad, era esta.
Pero mis pies permanecieron clavados en el lugar.”
― Adrienne Young

“If I memorialize a moment before it is over
Are you already gone?”
― Mariam Dogar, Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air

“You only have lost a deceased person. A deceased person has lost everything.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I look again at the pictures of my life, of their lives without me. They surround me like a mural, creating an interesting brand of chaos amidst God's stillness.”
― Penelope Przekop, Dust