Grief quotes for when you cannot find the words.

• “Grief is love with nowhere to go.”

  Jamie Anderson

• “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.”

  Helen Keller

• “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

  Thomas Campbell

• “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world.”

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• “Say not in grief he is no more, but live in thankfulness that he was.”

  Hebrew proverb

• “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through.”

  Eskimo proverb

• “Tears are the silent language of grief.”

  Voltaire

• “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.”

  Hilary Stanton Zunin

• “A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.”

  Cardinal Mermillod

• “My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.”

  Clarence Budington Kelland

• “You don't get over it, you just get through it.”

  Common in bereavement groups

• “I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart.”

  E. E. Cummings

• “What is remembered, lives.”

  Unknown

• “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.”

  Unknown

• “A child of mine, not of my womb, but of my heart, and forever mine.”

  Unknown

• “Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give but cannot.”

  Jamie Anderson

• “If I had known it would be the last time, I would have stayed a little longer.”

  Unknown

• “Love does not die. People do.”

  Unknown

• “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than an eternity without it.”

  City of Angels

• “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts.”

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

  A. A. Milne

• “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

  Mitch Albom

A line helps for a minute. Most people want the actual person back, or at least the way they talked. That is what we build. Missedyu takes what someone left behind, their photos, their messages, their voicemails, and makes a private place where you can still talk to their memory.

It is a memorial, not a replacement, and it is not a mental health service. But if you keep rereading old texts at 2am, you already know why it exists.