11/22/2011 02:36

posted by ColorMePurple

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

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

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

Time is a physician that heals every grief. ~Diphilus

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~Author Unknown

I think only through suffering all our wonderful human qualities
come out in us.
Unless and until you suffer, how will
you understand other’s suffering?”
-Sree Chakravarti

They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.
-Psalm 126:6

The Lord God will wipe all tears from all their faces.
-Isaiah 25:8

“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 W. Raymond

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell, “Hallowed Ground”

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. ~Author Unknown

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert

I didn’t Really find any about a child dying of cancer but just general grief and death quotes work…There are many beautiful ones. Give my warmest regards to the family. Be sure to give them your own!