When someone we love is no longer with us, the ache of missing them can be overwhelming. Words may fall short, but quotes can sometimes capture the deep emotions we’re feeling. They can provide comfort, understanding, and a sense of connection during a difficult time.
Grief is a universal experience, yet it’s deeply personal. Quotes about missing someone can resonate with the unique ways each of us feels loss. Here, we have gathered some of the best quotes to help you through your journey, offering solace and reflection.
Comforting Grief Quotes
“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.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish Headstone
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.” – Jamie Anderson
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.” – Rita Schiano
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day… unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear.” – Anonymous
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” – Robert Ingersoll
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous
“We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de Stael
“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
“No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.” – Chris Sorensen
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.” – Jean Giraudoux
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
“When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Anonymous
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
“Pain is the price of love. But love is worth it.” – Khaled Hosseini
“They say that time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare
“Though his soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” – Sarah Williams
“Every death is like the burning of a library.” – Anonymous
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Anonymous
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anonymous
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
Healing Through Grief Quotes
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“What we have once enjoyed deeply, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
“Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…” – Irving Berlin
“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
“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.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish Headstone
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” – Aeschylus
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” – Samuel Johnson
“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” – Maya Angelou
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” – Keanu Reeves
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” – Joni Mitchell
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” – William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.” – Unknown
“You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” – Natalie Babbit, “Tuck Everlasting”
“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” – Orson Scott Card
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” – John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – The Wonder Years
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” – Kristina McMorris
“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.” – Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”
Quotes for Coping with Loss
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day… unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear.” – Anonymous
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous
“Though they may be far away, their presence is always felt. I hold onto the belief that love never truly fades.” – Original
“In the gardens of memory, the palaces of dreams, this is where we will meet.” – Lewis Carroll
“Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
“Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.” – Megan Devine
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
“Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.” – Anonymous
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
“It’s not about getting over it; it’s about learning to live with it.” – After Chloe
“Sorrow comes in great waves… but it rolls over us, and though it may smother, it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.” – Henry James
“Grief is just love with no place to go.” – Anonymous
“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.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” – Mitch Albom
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” – C.S. Lewis
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” – William C. Hannan
“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.” – Inuit Proverb
“May love be what you remember most.” – Darcie Sims
Nostalgic Missing You Quotes
“The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you.” – Dean Jackson
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” – John Green
“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget you.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Sometimes, memories are the only things that keep you going when you’re missing someone.” – Unknown
“You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease if I can learn there is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last.” – Jonathan Larson
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller
“The biggest part of me is missing you.” – Unknown
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
“When I can’t find you, I feel a bit lost.” – Unknown
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
“I only miss you when I’m breathing.” – Jason Derulo
“The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you shall never pass away.” – Unknown
“I think I’ll miss you forever, like the stars miss the sun in the morning skies.” – Lana Del Rey
“The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.” – John Keats
“Missing someone is your heart’s way of reminding you that you love them.” – Unknown
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare
“Missing you comes in waves, and tonight I am drowning.” – Chris Young
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“Even though you’re not here, your memory warms my heart and lights my path.” – Unknown
“And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.” – Khadija Rupa
“We only part to meet again.” – John Gay
“I miss your voice. I miss your touch. I miss your face. I miss you.” – Unknown
“The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you.” – Dean Jackson
“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” – Tryon Edwards
“The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?” – Nicholas Rowe
“Time doesn’t take away from grief. It adds to it.” – Unknown
“You left, and my heart is a ceaseless serenade of sorrow.” – Unknown
“The silence isn’t so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.” – Owl City
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton
“I miss you in waves, and tonight I am drowning.” – Denice Envall
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
Quotes on Grief and Love
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh
“Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anonymous
“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.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7-8
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All that unspent love gathers in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.” – Jamie Anderson
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare
“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.” – Khalil Gibran
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…” – Irving Berlin
“Grief is the garden of compassion.” – Rumi
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world feels depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” – John Green
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From a Headstone in Ireland
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” – Robert Ingersoll
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world—the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Grief is just love with no place to go.” – Jamie Anderson
“Love is a bond that death cannot part. Gone from my arms, but still held in my heart.” – Anonymous
“When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Anonymous
Soothing Grief Quotes
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“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.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Unknown
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
“Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days.” – John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” – Keanu Reeves
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“It’s not the length of time we knew someone that makes them so special. It’s what they brought into our lives.” – Sandra J. Berry
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn
“When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Unknown
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
“I will hold you in my heart until I can hold you again in heaven.” – Unknown
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” – William Shakespeare
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.” – Jamie Anderson
“Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.” – Jean Giraudoux
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Grief is the garden of compassion.” – Rumi
“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.” – Lewis Carroll
Reflective Quotes on Grief
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart.” – Anon
“Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anon
“Grief is the garden of compassion.” – Rumi
“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.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.” – Alice Through the Looking Glass
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” – Samuel Johnson
“Grief is the most patient and persistent of all of life’s companions.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…” – Irving Berlin
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” – Emily Giffin
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas
“Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anon
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“Grief and love are forever intertwined. You don’t get one without the other.” – Jandy Nelson
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.” – William Shakespeare
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“Despite the heartache, I cherish the moments we shared.” – Anon
“For in grief, nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.” – C.S. Lewis
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish Headstone
“we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Final Thoughts
Losing someone dear is never easy, and finding the right words can help comfort the aching heart. The missing you grief quotes shared offer a way to express deep emotions that might be hard to articulate. These quotes touch on various aspects of loss, from the sorrow of parting to the beauty of cherished memories.
Reading these heartfelt sayings can provide solace and remind us that we are not alone in our pain. They allow us to connect with others who have experienced similar feelings and offer hope for healing. Let these powerful words be a source of peace and understanding during times of grief.
