‘In loving memory quotes’ are a way to remember and honor a loved one who has passed away. They can provide comfort and solace to those who are grieving, and serve as a reminder of the cherished memories and special moments shared with the deceased.
Such quotes can also serve as a way to celebrate the life of the person who has passed and to reflect on the impact they had on the lives of those around them. Whether you’re looking for a quote to include in a eulogy, on a memorial tribute, or just to express your own feelings of loss, there are many beautiful and poignant quotes to choose from.
In this article, we’ve included a list of 70 comforting loving memory quotes to inspire and motivate you.
70 Comforting In Loving Memory Quotes
“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”
Thomas Campbell
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
Irish proverb
“When tomorrow starts without me, don’t think we’re far apart, for every time you think of me. I’m right here, in your heart.”
David Romano
“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.”
Maya Angelou
“As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
Seneca
“Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.”
Ronald Reagan
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
Richard Bach
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.”
Irving Berlin
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
Joni Mitchell
“When words are most empty, tears are most apt.”
Max Lucado
“He loved and was loved. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”
Robert Frost
“Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest, lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There are no goodbyes for us. Whenever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
Emily Dickinson
“When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for yourself and your own delight.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.”
Seneca
“Grief is just love with no place to go.”
Jamie Anderson
“May love be what you want to remember.”
Darcie Sims
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
Isaac Asimov
“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.”
Renee Wood
“What we once have enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
Helen Keller
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”
Anne Frank
“There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible – a wound that will never quite heal.”
Susan Wiggs
“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”
Bessie Anderson Stanley
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”
Helen Keller
“I miss you. A little too much, a little too often, and a little bit more every day.”
John Michael Montgomery
“This loss feels like an ache between my ribs, it’s sad and scary but soft and steady”
Emmy Marucci
“Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” - Thomas Moore
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
John Taylor
“You’re probably looking down from heaven up above, sending out smiles with days of sunshine and showers of love.”
Napua
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”
James O’Barr
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”
Michel Foucault
“It’s hard to turn the page when you know someone won’t be in the next chapter, but the story must go on.”
Thomas Wilder
“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
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.”
Anna White
“Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either: ‘I wish I had’ or ‘I’m glad I did’.”
Zig Ziglar
“Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”
Rossiter W. Raymond
“Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you. I loved you so ‘twas heaven here with you.”
Isla Paschal Richardson
“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
“It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.”
John Denver
“Although our hearts hurt and mourn in humanly pain the fact still remains the same That Heaven Has Gained more Love To sprinkle down from above.”
Antonio Talbert
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”
Anna Quindlen
“I’m leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.”
John Denver
“How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint you footsteps have left upon our hearts.”
Dorothy Ferguson
“Be remembered for the right reasons. Leave a legacy and a smile in your heart beyond life.”
Jasmina Siderovski
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Lives are like rivers: Eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to.”
Richard Russo
“The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Haruki Murakami
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.”
Jeff Zentner
“The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
Brian Jacques
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
Voltaire
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese
“It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.”
Maureen Hunter
“It’s hard when you miss people. But, you know, if you miss them it means you were lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.”
Nathan Scott
“There are special people in our lives who never leave us even after they are gone.”
D. Morgan
“As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”
Morrie Schwartz
“The idea is not to live forever but to create something that will.”
Andy Warhol
“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
Nicholas Sparks
“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”
Robert Southey
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
Richard Puz
Wrapping Up
Some of the quotes in this article focus on the pain and sadness of loss, while others celebrate the joy and love that the deceased brought into the world. No matter what your reason for seeking out these quotes is, they can provide a powerful way to remember and honor your loved one.
Check out our article on how to face death according to 7 philosophers, as well as Aristotle’s view on death.
