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

It is as the scent and the colour of the flowers to the texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption.

The memories we have for those who left are our ultimate consolation.

Maybe all those cliché things that people say after someone dies are true. Maybe the dead don't leave us, maybe they are close by, watching over us, especially when we think about them...

The thing is, no matter how sudden or gradual a family member's death is, there never seems to be enough time to say: "Goodbye." But, then again, how does say "goodbye" to a person who loves you, sins and all?

I haven't thought past my father. He died a few days shy of his thirtieth birthday. When I picture my future, I can imagine my Naval career, starting a family, but I can't picture myself as a geezer, or really any older than he got to be. It's like he's the horizon line in my head, I'm always moving toward it, but I can't imagine getting to the other side.

The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.

A coincidence will remain a coincidence until its significance is realized.

When I awoke on Wednesday afternoon, I understood how an amputee must feel.

We don't have to believe that the sign we see is our loved one. We just have to be open to the possibility it might be.