Top 10 Quotes For Deceased Loved Ones

When coping with the loss of a loved one, finding comfort in words of wisdom and inspiration can be helpful. Here are the top 99 quotes for deceased loved ones:

1. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
2. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
3. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
4. “What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
5. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
6. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
7. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
9. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
10. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Unknown

More Quotes for Deceased Loved Ones

Here are 89 more quotes to help you remember and honor your loved one:

• “Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.” – Unknown
• “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami
• “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
• “I can no longer see you with my eyes or touch you with my hands, but I will feel you in my heart forever.” – Unknown
• “The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.” – Unknown
• “No one ever truly dies as long as they are remembered.” – Unknown
• “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
• “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown
• “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
• “I cannot say, and I will not say that he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, he has wandered into an unknown land, and left us dreaming how very fair it needs to be, since he lingers there.” – James Whitcomb Riley
• “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.” – Elizabeth Berrien
• “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Maurice Mourat
• “Death is not extinguishing the light, it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
• “The dead never truly die. They simply change form.” – Suzy Kassem
• “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran
• “Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.” – Jennifer L. Armentrout
• “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
• “The dead are not dead if we have loved them truly.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
• “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” – Unknown
• “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
• “As long as we live, they too will live; for they are now a part of us; as we remember them.” – Jewish Prayer
• “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
• “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
• “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
• “We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” – Australian Aboriginal Proverb
• “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
• “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.” – Stephen King
• “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
• “Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.” – W.H. Auden
• “Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
• “Life is like a camera. Focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” – Unknown
• “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
• “Life is too short to waste time on things that don’t matter.” – Unknown
• “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama XIV
• “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama XIV
• “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
• “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost