“One more day One more time One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied. But then again I know what it would do Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.”— Diamond Rio, youtube.com
“When we have joy we crave to share, we remember them.”— Sylvan Kamens, Rabbie Jack Riember, dignitymemorial.com
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.com
“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.”— Pablo Neruda, thoughtcatalog.com
“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”— Alphonse de Lamartine, amazon.com
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“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, thoughtcatalog.com
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“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, thoughtcatalog.com
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“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…”— Anne Lamott, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”— Anne Frank, thoughtcatalog.com
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”— Hilary Stanton Zunin, thoughtcatalog.com
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“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…”— John Irving, amazon.com