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 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 Dickinson

 

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