1. "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

1. "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

When someone loses a loved one, it can be difficult to find the right words to say. Offering quotes and words of comfort can help provide solace during a difficult time. Here are the top 99 quotes for a friend who has lost a loved one:

2. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

3. “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 Proverb

4. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From a headstone in Ireland

6. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran

7. “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de Stael

8. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

10. “The dead never truly leave us. They simply move to a new address.” – Unknown

11. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

12. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown

14. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler

15. “There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.” – Nancy Stephan

16. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” – Helen Keller

18. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens

19. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

20. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” – Mitch Albom

22. “The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” – Thornton Wilder

23. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

24. “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.” – Unknown

26. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” – Aeschylus

27. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami

28. “We all have a destiny in life. Some will go before us, but they will always be in our hearts.” – Unknown

30. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne

31. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller

32. “Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” – Mitch Albom

34. “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

35. “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” – 2 Corinthians 5:8

36. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca

38. “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” – Leo Buscaglia

39. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

40. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

42. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

43. “He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

44. “Say not in grief: ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew proverb

46. “Those we love can never be more than a thought away, for as long as there’s a memory they live in our hearts to stay.” – Unknown

47. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe

48. “The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” – Unknown

50. “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” – Kahlil Gibran

51. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

52. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” – Unknown

54. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou

55. “You are not alone. You are not alone in your pain. You are not alone in your grief. You are not