Quotes For One Year Death Anniversary

Remembering a loved one on their one year death anniversary can be a difficult and emotional time. Here are 99 quotes to help celebrate and honor their memory:

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“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
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.” – Anonymous
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Anonymous
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“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
“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.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – Winnie the Pooh
“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 Worthington Raymond
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.” – John Lennon
“I am because you were.” – Anonymous
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Death is just another journey, one that we all must take.” – Anonymous
“The dead never truly leave us, they simply move to a new address.” – Anonymous
“Whenever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories.” – Anonymous
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – Jose N. Harris
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Anonymous
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” – Mary Pickford
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates