424 Quotes About Death-of-a-loved-one

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted.

He was dead.No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

And then I feel guilty, because I know all these offers are made in vain. I know I cannot get my mother back healthy for a day. ... My mom is sick, sick and dying, and no bargaining will change that. And it's in all the books, bargaining, which makes me embarrassed. Look at me grieving my textbook grief. - 150

There came a moment in this journey when I freely realized that the lives most of lead are small. Important, but small. Our radius reaches family, clients, friends for whom we do selfless and amazing feats. But our sphere of influence is local.... So our illnesses/deaths are small, too. Not unimportant. Just local in nature... - 209

Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad. ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life." - 131

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.