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Read This When You're Missing A Loved One That's Passed Away

Death ends a life not a relationship.
Kirsten Corley
November 7, 2016
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Memories, Death, Living
“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
— Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
Tagged: Loss, Death, Identity
“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.”
— Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters
Tagged: Death, Pain, Time
“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”
— Carrie Jones, Captivate (Need)
Tagged: Loss, Mourning, Death
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”
— Anna Quindlen, Every Last One: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
Tagged: Death, Love, mornings
“Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form.”
— Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Tagged: Death, Together
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
— Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Tagged: Death, Loss, Heartbroken
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
Tagged: Missing, Death, Mourning
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. 

After they were gone? That was all you thought about.”
— J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 2)
Tagged: Memories, Death, Past
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Tagged: Death, Life, Relationships
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Tagged: Grief, Love, Death
“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Death, Life, funeral, Mourning
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Tagged: Loss, Death, Moving On
“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Grief, Death
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Love, alive
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Leaving, Loss, Relationships Ending, Gone, Mourning, Death Quotes
“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Death, lost, Alone
“Everyone disappears, just at a different speed.”
— M. Ocean, Let Her Go
Tagged: Disappears, Dying, Death
“I never dreamt it'd be this way
I've lost any chance for me to say
To say that I miss you, say that I love you
Will someone please tell me I'm okay

I wasn't prepared for what's to come
A life made of memories gone so young
And now I'm regretting all I've done
But in your heart know that I'm with you all along”
— Amber Pacific, Gone So Young
Tagged: Sad, Emo Lyrics, Death
“First understand that there is no ‘correct’ way to grieve. Grieving is not something you should be expected to simply ‘get over.”
— Seven Ponds, After Death Planning Guide
Tagged: Loss, Grief, Grieving, Coping With Loss, After Death
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Tagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death, Death & Loss