Twelve Quotes to Remember a Loved One Who’s Died

When a loved one dies, those who remain feel bereft. Yet one way to move forward is to carry our loved ones with us – as memories. Doing so can be alternately comforting, sorrowful, impossible, hopeful or everything in between. Many writers, thinkers and others have pondered the phenomenon of what lives on in our memories after death – and you can read their musings in the quotes below.

1. “Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
– John Galsworthy

 

2. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

– Aeschylus

 

3. “Don’t cry because it’s over! Smile because it has been!”
– Ludwig Jacobowski

 

4. “I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”

– Rita Mae Brown

 

5. “Siblings are a volume of childhood memories; a nostalgia that cannot be easily deleted.”

– Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

 

6. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
– Mitch Albom

 

7. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
– Antonio Porchia

 

8. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
– Emily Dickenson

 

9. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
– Unknown

 

10. “Trying to remember you is like carrying water in my hands a long distance across sand.”
– Stephen Dobyns

 

11. “Love is eternal — the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

 

12. “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.”

– Kahlil Gibran