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

Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already scattered; as a broken link, a biological dead end, an eternal withdrawal from reality, a once complex object that now dwindled, dwindled, left nothing behind except a l like a fallen speck of soot on a blank sheet of paper.

He looked at her with tears in his eyes then uttered. " I really want to tell you to live for me. I really want to be you to the reason you wake up in the morning but that's selfish. I just hope one day you'll see why I want you to live and eventually you'll want to live for yourself".

Love only for the sake of love - with no agenda, no expectations, and no judgments.Where there is love, there is no separation.

Kiss someone like it's the last one you give.

Death, like so much in life, is a lesson, which must be understood and cherished, not feared; it is a rite of passage we all must encounter at one time or another; it helps build our character and makes us stronger if we can endure its painful aftermath.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

There is one thing I can say for certain about grief: it will change you. Whether you choose to defeat grief or be defeated, you will be changed.

While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.Painful change just takes time.