Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Queen Elizabeth II.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II
Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Romantic Love
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland 
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer
Today I Release All My Troubles And Grief.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
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.
- Anonymous
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -
especially if your marriage had lasted many years.
Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,
and whatever the nature of its ending,
there is always grief and regret -
perhaps regret over the ending,
or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -
or perhaps both.
Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.
No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,
opens the door to new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Did Not Die
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.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain,
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
- Anonymous
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Death is the final opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Thank you for visiting: Queen Elizabeth II Quotes.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Encouraging Quotes.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Read about our terms of use, copyright, contact information, and more.