Loved Ones Quotes

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

with a tear in my heart
and a poem in my eye.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.”
― Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!

“I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...or they'll never be able to borrow our car.”
― Emma Daley

“Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Friendship is vowing toward immortality and does not know the passing away of beauty (Though take care!) because it aims for the spirit. Many years ago through loss I learned that love is wrung from our inmost heart until only the loved one is and we are not.”
― Herbert Mason, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.”
― Jennifer Egan

“Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.”
― Robert Liparulo, House of Dark Shadows

“One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch

“Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness...Mrs. Folmer was oppressed by that special sadness, perhaps the most horrible torture, of those who had no idea what happened to their loved ones.”
― Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say

“Preachers or scientists may generalize, but we know that no generality is possible about those whom we love; not one heaven awaits them, not even one oblivion.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“The doom reserved for enemies
marches on the ones we love the most.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“If not for yourself, live for the loved ones, for they love you, forever.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Big Voice Within

“Invincibility reveals admirers, vulnerability reveals family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If there is plenty food on the table, but no people around it, is it really a table!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“… there is a thrilling feeling of happiness that comes from having your loved ones visit you at the hospital. It’s so out of the way, and so completely not what anyone wants to be doing, that when they do it, you know the only plausible reason is because they care for you.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“Everybody is a narcissist
(Sonnet 2860)

Everybody hates a narcissist,
yet everybody is a narcissist -
when it's others it's narcissism,
when it's themselves it's self-love.

We all need somebody, that's not weakness,
it's our biggest strength, at the same time,
we all need some personal space,
it's not selfishness, it's a basic essential.

A healthy humane society is where our lives
overlap each other, enough to lift each other up,
but never too much to violate each other.

Separately, we grow in height -
together, we grow in life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“A healthy humane society is where our lives overlap each other, enough to lift each other up, but never too much to violate each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Some remnants sob, some scream, some fight you for control. It’s why you always charge your clients for an acclimation period, so you don’t end up with an unpleasant surprise when you first plug in a remnant drive—like the angry dead spewing vitriol at their bewildered relatives. (Clients do not usually pay for the privilege of being reamed out by their late loved ones.)”
― Tia Tashiro, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 206, November 2023

“One can stand unshaken against the world, but often crumbles in the face of those they hold dear.”
― Rohit Dharupta, Reorder of the World

“If you value your mental health, turn off all useless notifications - let's start with me, turn off all social media notifications from me, there's nothing I drop that you need to read immediately, my days are numbered but the Naskar canon is timeless, so you can catch up with my writing later, prioritize your life and your loved ones first.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth