Quotations on Love and Loss

Wisdom Quotations which you have found to be comforting and inspiring at times loss and sorrow

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Quotations Submitted by Zephyr who inspired this thread

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Death is Nothing at All
by Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
   that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
   which you always used.
Put no difference in your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
   at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
   that it always was.
Let it be spoken without affect,
   without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
   because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you,
  for an interval,
     somewhere very near,
       just around the corner.
All is well.

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Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep
by Mary Elizabeth Frye (1904-2004)

“Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight.
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there — I do not die. ”

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God saw you getting tired
And a cure was not to be
So He put His arms around you
And whispered 'Come with Me.'
With tearful eyes
We watched you suffer
And saw you fade away
Although we loved you dearly
We could not make you stay.
A golden heart stopped beating
Hard working hands at rest
God broke our hearts to prove
He only takes the best.
It's lonesome here without you
We miss you more each day
Life doesn't seem the same
Since you've gone away.
When days are sad and lonely
And everything goes wrong
We seem to hear you whisper
'Cheer up and carry on.'
Each time we see your picture
You seem to smile and say
'Don't cry, I'm in God's keeping
We'll meet again someday.'

This body is not me

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Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.   –Unknown

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.   –Norman Cousins

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 
–Mahatma Gandhi

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Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
when you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning to stay,
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of the future that you planned:
Only remember me, you understand
it will be to late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.


Christina Rossetti.(1830-1894)

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is it allowed to post a link to quotations on love & friendship?

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Here's a poem by me on losing a loved one Swan song

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follow your heart and wisdom Mikey, love

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thanks for such simple and useful advice,
M