– Gone But Not Forgotten Quotes –
It’s very common to feel like you have a lot to say but no words to say when a loved one passes away. Here, we have compiled a list of gone but not forgotten quotes.
Gone But Not Forgotten Quotes
Quotes can assist you in expressing your emotions or empathizing with others. These gone but not forgotten quotes are a great way to do this.
1. “No one spread more love in one lifetime. The song is ended but the melody lingers on.” –Irving Berlin
2. “Funerals are a constant reminder that chasing most of the things we are chasing is an embarrassing way to spend a portion of our lives.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
3. “We are surprised not by someone’s death but by its cause or date.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
4. “Death frees us from even ourselves.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
5. “To live is to owe life to die.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
6. “Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
7. “We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
8. “Everyone is no-one-to-be.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
9. “What you remember saves you.” – W. S. Merwin
10. “Someone mentioned your name today, / took me down memory lane, / to a time very much younger, / a time more pure, more sane.” – Adiela Akoo
11. “You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.” – Amy Tan
12. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left to grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, / We will remember them.” – Laurence Binyon
13. “I have to live if I want to be remembered.” – Suzanne Young
14. “..we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all.
They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality …” – R.J. Palacio
15. “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes.” – Vladimir Nabokov
16. “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” – Jane Austen
17. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
18. “It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
19. “We are forever getting closer to the dreaded moment that will finally confirm that we will not live forever.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
20. “Some people are gone, but not forgotten. Some are still here, but already forgotten.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
21. “A second is a step taken by the living towards death.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
22. “No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
23. “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
24. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
25. “As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” – Seneca
Touching Gone But Not Forgotten Quotes
26. “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning,
nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things, have passed away.” – Revelation 21:4
27. “To live is Christ and to die is gain.” – Philippians 1:21
28. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4
29. “When words are most empty, tears are most apt.” – Max Lucado
30. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
31. “At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.” -Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer
32. “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” -Terry Pratchett
33. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” -Havelock Ellis
34. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” -J.M. Barrie
35. “It’s so curious; One can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief.
But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed,
or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.” -Colette
36. “There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.” -Shel Silverstein
37. “Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
38. “Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.” -Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel
39. “On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Faceless and pale as china. The round sky goes on minding its business.
Your absence is inconspicuous; Nobody can tell what I lack.” -Sylvia Plath, Parliament Hill Fields
40. “When we have joy we crave to share; We remember them.” -Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer
41. “Make the most of your regrets; Never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it ’til it comes to have a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.” -Henry David Thoreau
42. “I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces all day through” -Billie Holiday, I’ll Be Seeing You
43. “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, One More Day
44. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days…” -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
45. “I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized.
I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, ‘Look: She existed.’” -Meghan O’Rourke, Story’s End
46. “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay
47. “Look closely and you will see almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders.
That’s why it takes courage to get out of bed in the morning and climb into the day.” -Edward Hirsch
48. “Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today.
I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.” -Mariska Hargity
49. “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” -Clarence Budington Kelland
50. “What we once have enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.” –Helen Keller
Comforting Gone But Not Forgotten Quotes
51. “When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” -Korean Proverb
52. “She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.” -George Eliot
53. “The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
54. “Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief… as long as you make room for other things too.” – The Wire
55. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” -Alfred Tennyson
56. “When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.” -Stuart Scott
57. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” -Khalil Gibran
58. “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” -Patti Davis
59. “The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely
what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.” -Cheryl Strayed
60. “What separates us from animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.” -David Levithan
61. “Someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow. Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow.” -Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
62. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it Is not the same river and he is not the same man.” -Heraclites
63. “Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” -William Shakespeare
64. “Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what’s forgotten as what’s remembered.” -Jane Alison
65. “The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.” -Patricia Monaghan
66. “That’s great, Grace, but in case you’ve forgotten, we’re supposed to kill vampires, not play nice and have lunch with them.” – Archer -K.A. Last
67. “Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories.” –Ronald Reagan
68. “You think winter will never end, and then, when you don’t expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and different light.” -Wendell Berry
69. “Show me…Show me what I’ve forgotten…Show me what was so important…that it tore my heart in two?!” -Matsuri Hino
70. “If he’s forgotten me, I’ll make him remember me. I’ll make him want me again.” -Margaret Mitchell
71. “I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.” -Alan Bennett
72. “Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life-giving and so natural.” -Sanchita Pandey
73. “ Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.” -Diane Frolov
74. “I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.” -Terry Fox
75. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” -C.S. Lewis
We hope you enjoyed our collection of gone but not forgotten quotes. Please feel free to share with your friends and loved ones.
StudentsandScholarship Team.
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