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

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

When my grandmother died, time died, too, in this apartment.

Había sido madre y... ¿cómo se les llama a las madres que pierden a un hijo? ¿Amputadas?, así se sentía.

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?Sam Hughes

At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it

How well can we really know another person? People can be in your lives for years –– they can fill your lives. But all you really know of them are the stories they tell you. And then they die. They always leave a mystery behind.

Death was a smokescreen between Life and myself.

I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking away from his last fight, determined to make it outside before I broke into a million pieces, I almost made it too.

Death had come frequently to the bleak village where the family lived. Indeed, death had been a regular visitor in their own house, taking seven of Chase’s twelve brothers and sisters before their fifth birthdays. Whenever, he thought of these children, it was to imagine an inexorable shadow advancing over their tiny forms, at length to darken hearts and eyes.