Dealing with grief after losing a loved one is never easy. The pain of their absence can feel unbearable at times. Finding the right words to express your sadness and pay tribute to their memory can provide some comfort. Here are over 85+ missing you grief quotes organized by theme that you can reflect on when you’re missing someone who has passed away.
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Missing You Grief Quotes
- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
- “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
- “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
- “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a 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 never ends… But it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith… It is the price of love.” – Author Unknown
- “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo legend
- “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
- “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we loved deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de Stael
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Headstone in Ireland
- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
- “Grief is love that has lost its home.” – Kristin Linklater
- “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
- “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Legend
- “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we loved deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de Stael
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish headstone
- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
- “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
- “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
- “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Grief is so painfully real, regardless of its origin. The love doesn’t matter. The loss does.” – April Green
- “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
- “Love doesn’t die, people do. So when all that’s left of me is love, give me away.” – A.A. Milne
- “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” – Veronica Roth
- “We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” – Madame de Stael
- “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
Sudden Death Missing You Grief Quotes
- “We all lose someone we love too soon, for no one is ever ready to say goodbye.” – Author Unknown
- “Sudden loss brings unbearable pain that seems it will never leave. Words cannot describe it. Time, the greatest healer, can begin mending broken hearts.” – Dodinsky
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” – J.M. Barrie
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we loved deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Headstone in Ireland
- “The death of a beloved is an amputation.” – C.S. Lewis
Broken Heart Miss You Grief Quotes
- “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” – Aeschylus
- “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
- “Grief never ends…but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith…It is the price of love.” – Author Unknown
Missing You Grief Quotes for Dad
- “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there. But a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” – Unknown
- “A father leaves his imprint on his daughter forever.” – Unknown
- “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.” – Michael Ratnadeepak
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
- “It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.” – John Sinor
- “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.” – Greg Bishop
- “A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she’ll never outgrow your heart.” – Unknown
- “No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word, father.” – Lydia Maria Child
- “My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland
- “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain
- “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare
- “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert
- “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” – Unknown
- “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” – Anne Sexton
- “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” – Unknown
- “I love my father as the stars. He is a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.” – Terri Guillemets
- “When I was young, I didn’t think about being a different color. We lived near the ocean, so the Hawaiians were my friends, and father treated them equally. I didn’t experience racism till I was a teen.” – Barack Obama
- “One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.” – Anonymous
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
- “Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.” – Unknown
Missing You Grief Quotes for Mom
- “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
- “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
- “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” – Leroy Brownlow
- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish proverb
- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honoré de Balzac
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
- “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Charley Benetto
- “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
Missing You Grief Quotes for Loved Ones
- “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.” – Unknown
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From a headstone in Ireland
- “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown
- “Grief is love that has lost its home.” – Kristin Linklater
- “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de St
- “Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow.” – Mary Elizabeth Frye
- “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday.” – Unknown
- “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
Missing Someone Special Quotes
- “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “Missing someone gets easier every day because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.” – Unknown
- “Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too.” – Unknown
- “Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho
- “I wanted to tell you that I miss you. I wanted to tell you that I care about you. I wanted to tell you so many things. But sometimes words just fail me.” – Unknown