Quotes on Grief! 100 Grief Sayings & Quotes about Grief & Loss
Famous Quotes on Grief
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” – Mitch Albom
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.” – William Shakespeare
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” – Terry Pratchett
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki
“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
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” – Nicholas Sparks
“No one is immune to grief. There are those amongst us today who have grieved deeply in the past, and there are those who are grieving deeply now and sadly. All of us will grieve at some time in the future.” – Lorraine Kember
“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.” – William Shakespeare
Quotes on Grief and Loss
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? —Kahlil Gibran
“One of the most important things we can do for people who are grieving is to give them a safe place in which to experience and express their pain —J. Nelson
“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.” —William Shakespeare
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” —Samuel Johnson
“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
“Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.” —Joan Chittister
“Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.” —Seneca
“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.” —Emily Dickinson
“He sought to transform the grief that looks down into the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.” —Victor Hugo
“Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.” —Dodinsky
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.” —Alphonse De Lamartine
“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.” —Lois Lowry
“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.” —Jean De La Bruyere
“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” —Seneca
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” —William Shakespeare
“Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” —Sufi Epigram
“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.” —Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes About Grief And Love
“Grief only exists where love lived first.” —Franchesca Cox
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” —Queen Elizabeth II
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” —Thomas Campbell
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” —Kahlil Gibran
“Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.” —Richard Bach
“When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” —Unknown
“We need to grieve the ones we’ve lost — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” —Jennifer Williamson
“Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” —Paulo Coelho, Aleph
“When you are sorrowful look again into your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” —Kahlil Gibran
“Grief opens a place in our hearts that we never knew could hurt so profoundly, but it also opens this same place to a love we never imagined possible” —Unknown
“Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given.” —Kay Redfield Jamison
“Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity; the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” —Dr. Earl A. Grollman
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, a deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” —Washington Irving
“But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, you’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.” —Tessa Shaffter, Heaven Has No Regrets
“Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss. Keep in mind that a broken heart is an open heart.” —Louise Hay & David Kessler, You Can Heal Your Heart
“To mourn your loss is required if you are to befriend the love you have been granted. To honor your grief is not self-destructive or harmful, it is life-sustaining and life-giving, and it ultimately leads you back to love again. In this way, love is both the cause and the antidote.” —Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
“Grief is not linear. It’s not a slow progression forward toward healing, it’s a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay patches and fewer devastated ones. The mind can’t handle emotions like grief and terror for any sustained period of time, so it takes some downtime.” —Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies: A Novel
“Love, where it ever existed before, doesn’t cease to exist. To speak of love in the past tense is not to know love at all. Love goes on, being always a continuation and an extension of love. Your grief is but the continuation of the love you once experienced, and will always experience. Grief is another name for Love.” —Jennifer Williamson
“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.” —John Green
“You see, love and grief are two sides of the same precious coin. One does not—and cannot—exist without the other. They are the yin and yang of our lives… Grief is predicated on our capacity to give and receive love. Some people choose not to love and so never grieve. If we allow ourselves the grace that comes with love, however, we must allow ourselves the grace that is required to mourn.” —Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving…the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.” —Henri Nouwen
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” —John Green
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” —C.S. Lewis
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” —Emily Giffin
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” —Faraaz Kazi
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” —J.K. Rowling
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” —William Shakespeare
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” —Pablo Neruda
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.” —Helen Keller
“Words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.” —Jodi Picoult
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy
“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” —Nicholas Sparks
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.” —Mark Twain
“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” —Sarah Waters
“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.” —Joan Didion
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.” —Arthur Golden
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
Quotes For Grieving Family
“We rise by lifting others.” —Robert Ingersoll
“It’s not about getting over it it’s about learning to live with it.” —After Chloe
“Healing takes time and you are doing the best you can and that is perfect.”
“Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.”
“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.” —V.C. Andrews
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” —Gail Caldwell
“You don’t get over it, you get through it… It doesn’t get better, it gets different…Every day, just like me, Grief puts on a new face.” —Wendy Feireisen
“Grief changes us the pain sculpts us into someone who understands more deeply hurts more often appreciates more quickly cries more easily hopes more desperately loves more openly.”
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” —Vicki Harrison
Quotes About Grief And Healing
“Real grief is not healed by time…If time does anything, it deepens our grief.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy
“Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.” —Elisabeth Kubler Ross
“As much as it hurts, suppressing how you feel is like putting a lid on a pressure cooker and turning off the steam valve, eventually it will blow. By expressing your emotions, you start the healing process.” —M. Hunter
“The reality is that we don’t forget, move on, and have closure, but rather we honor, we remember, and incorporate our deceased children and siblings into our lives in a new way. In fact, keeping memories of your loved one alive in your mind and heart is an important part of your healing journey.” —Harriet Schiff
“You give yourself permission to grieve by recognizing the need for grieving. Grieving is the natural way of working through the loss of a love. Grieving is not weakness nor absence of faith. Grieving is as natural as crying when you are hurt, sleeping when you are tired or sneezing when your nose itches. It is nature’s way of healing a broken heart.” —Doug Manning
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” —Anne Lamott
Inspirational Quotes About Grief And Loss
“Real grief is not healed by time…If time does anything, it deepens our grief.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” —John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” —Helen Keller
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.” ―Paulo Coelho, Author of The Alchemist
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ―Rumi
“Therefore, it is often only in retrospect – or better, in memory, that we fully realize its power and depth. Yes, indeed, love often makes itself visible in pain.” —Henri Nouwen
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” —Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.” ―Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson
“The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was for us, and the more intimately we experience what her love meant for us. Real, deep love is, as you know, very unobtrusive, seemingly easy and obvious, and so obvious that we take it for granted.”
“I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk round it.” ―Rachel Joyce
“It is as if the intensity of grief fused the distance between you and the dead. Or perhaps, in reality, part of one dies. Like Orpheus, one tries to follow the dead on the beginning of their journey. But one cannot, like Orpheus, go all the way, and after a long journey, one comes back. If one is lucky, one is reborn.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” —Anne Lamott
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.” —Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” —Jeanette Winterson
“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time —the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes —when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever —there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.” —John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Grief can destroy you –or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it’s over and you’re alone, you begin to see that it wasn’t just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can’t get off your knees for a long time, you’re driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.” ―Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
Short Quotes about Grief
“Grief is itself a medicine.” —William Cowper
“Grief is a species of idleness.” —Samuel Johnson
“Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.” —Terri Guillemets
“Grief is light that is capable of counsel.” —Proverb
“All things grow with time, except grief.” —Jewish Proverb
“Time takes away the grief of men.” —Desiderius Erasmus
“One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.” —Pierre Corneille
“The only cure for grief is action.” —George Henry Lewis
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.” —James Martineau
“For some moments in life there are no words.” —David Seltzer
“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.” —Moliere
“Grief is love not wanting to let go.” —Earl A. Grollman
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” —Henry Wordsworth
“No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.” —C.S. Lewis
“Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.” —Walker Percy
“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.” —E.M. Cioran
“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.” —William Cullen Bryant
Funny Quotes About Grief
“Grief is as individual as a snowflake.”
“Everything happens for a reason” is the most bullshit condolence you can give a grieving person.
“I usually say ‘I’m fine’, because the pain of losing a child is impossible to describe.”
“Grieving is a necessary passage and difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow- it is not a permanent rest stop.” —Dodinsky
“My mother suffered silently and smiled so no one could tell. So if you see me smiling today, know my mother taught me well.” —Unkown
“The irony of grief is that the person you need to talk to about how you feel is the person who is no longer there.”
Inspirational Quotes About Death Of A Loved One
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
“You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” —Cassandra Clare
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” —G.K. Chesterton
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” —Unknown
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” —John Taylor
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” —Robert Ingersoll
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” —Gail Caldwell
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” —Charles Dickens
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” —Eskimo Proverb
Comforting Quotes When Someone Dies
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” —Pat Schweiber
“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” —Joshua Wisenbaker
“With deeper attachment, we usually have deeper grieving, and usually longer grieving.” —Ron Johnson
“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.” —Michael Ondaatje
“It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in your heart that never grows back.” —Kevin Brooks
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.” —Charles Bukowski
“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.” —Eric Hoffer
“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” —Nigella Lawson
“Everything feels so surreal when you are gone. Oh, if only you knew the things I’d do just to be able to see you once more.” —Unknown
“Losing a loved one is painful, but losing someone like you is even worse, as you are the most loved of all. Should you return to our side, please stay longer this time, okay?” —Unknown
Bible Verses about Grief
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” – Psalm 147:3
“Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4
“Give all your worries to Him, because He cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7
“God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.” – Psalm 46:1
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18
“So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.” – John 16:22
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” – Psalm 23:4
“He 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
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10
Grief Quotes about Moving On
“The only cure for grief is action.” – George Henry Lewis
“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go.” – Mary VanHaute
“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi Epigram
“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
“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” – Sarah Waters
“Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all.” – Caitlin Doughty
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“An eternal memory… until we meet again: Those special memories will always bring a smile if only I could have you back for just a little while. Then we could sit and talk again just like we used to do, you always meant so very much and always will do too. The fact that you’re no longer here will always cause me pain, but you’re forever in my heart until we meet again.” – Unknown
Surviving Grief Quotes
It is perfectly okay to admit you’re not okay.” – Unknown
“Keep your head up. God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.” – Unknown
“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
“The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.” – Colin Murray Parkes
“…we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.” – Michelle Moran
“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.” – Leigh Bardugo
“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.” – Maria V. Snyder
“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
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.” – Arthur Golden
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?
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” – Anne Lamott
Grief and Anger Quotes
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” – Kristina McMorris
“Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift kick to the shin.” – Unknown
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.” – Jojo Moyes
“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.” – Melina Marchetta
“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
As much as it hurts, suppressing how you feel is like putting a lid on a pressure cooker and turning off the steam valve, eventually it will blow. By expressing your emotions, you start the healing process.” – M. Hunter
“It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.” – Katie McGarry
“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.” – Nicholas Sparks
“The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see – the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived.” – Katie McGarry
“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it’s been too long since you missed them last.” – Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
“I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else. I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country to no return. Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake. I answer the heroic question ‘Death, where is thy sting?’ with ‘It is here in my heart and mind and memories.’” – Maya Angelou
“You’ll get over it” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” – Jeanette Winterson
Grief Quotes That Will Give You Positivity
“And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope.” – Unknown
“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains.”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in plac.” – Sarah Dessen
“This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy.” – Nicholas Sparks
“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.”
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
Grief Sayings and Quotes
“Tears water our growth.” —William Shakespeare
“Those things that hurt instruct.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Tears are the silent language of grief.” —Voltaire
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” —Keanu Reeves
“Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.” —Proverb
“We need never be afraid of our tears.” —Charles Dickens
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
“Our grief is as individual as our lives.” —Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“We get no choice. If we love, we grieve.” —Thomas Lynch
“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” —William Faulkner
“What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.” —Jewish proverb
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” —Author unknown
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” —Aeschylus
“Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” —unknown
“A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.” —Grenville Kleiser ‘Dictionary Of Proverbs’
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” —Hebrew proverb
“The fact that something has happened to a million other people diminishes neither grief nor joy.” —Unknown
“Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” —Mother Teresa
“Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.” —Anonymous
“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.” —Jean Cameron
“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” —Lou Reed, ‘Magic And Loss’
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” —Marcel Proust
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” —Buddhist
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” —AuthorUnknown
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” —AuthorUnknown
“Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, “It Might Have Been.” —George Ade ‘More Fables’
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” —Buddhist
“I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too.” —Chloe Woodward
“If tears could build a stairway,and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.” —Author unknown
“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they’d learned to swim.” —U2 ‘Until The End Of The World
“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.” —Buddhist
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” —Jan Gildwell
“If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.” —Author unknown
“The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ‘The Golden Legend’
“No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.” —Author unknown
“Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you’ve lived.” —Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“May all beings everywhere, Seen and unseen, Dwelling far off or nearby, Being or waiting to become, May all be filled with lasting joy.” —Buddhist
“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” —Old Chinese proverb
“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 legend
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” —From The Wonder Years
“Love is like standing in wet cement, the longer you stay the harder to leave and you can never leave without leaving your marks behind.” —Author unknown
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.” —Author unknown
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” —Quintus Ennius
“That song is sweetest, bravest, best, Which plucks the thistle-barb of care From a despondent brother’s breast, And plants a sprig of heart’s-ease there.” —Andrew Downing ‘The Sweetest Song’
“Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” —Virginia Satir
“There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.” —Victoria Alexander
“A beautiful colourful rainbow could not exist if it were not for the rain of a grey day – it was born from the very droplets of it.” —Author unknown
“People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.” —Fern Bork
“We’ve shared our lives these many years. You’ve held my hand; you’ve held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears – yet for a moment, we must part.” —Author unknown
“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.” —David Nicholls ‘One Day’
“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.” —Rita Mae Brown
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief isonly a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” —Hillary Stanton Zunin
“Grief is like a moving river, it’s always changing. I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.” —Michelle Williams
“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.” —Julie Burchill
“We do not have to rely on memories to recapture the spirit of those we have loved and lost – they live within our souls in some perfect sanctuary which even death cannot destroy.” —Nan Witcomb
“If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.” —Emma Thompson
“I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.” —Og Mandino
“As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.” —Sascha
“Grief is what I feel when someone passes away, Grief is what I feel when I am concerned, Grief is what I feel when I have done wrong, Grief is what I feel when some accident happens, Grief is something that all people have gone through.” —Brandi Reissig
“Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery.” —F. Alexander Magoun
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die, so let us all be thankful.” —Buddhist
“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
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” —Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.” —Nicholas Sparks ‘The Notebook’
“We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.” —Dean Koontz ‘The Darkest Evening Of The Year’
“The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.” —Joshua Loth Liebman
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass – if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it’s okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.” —Jodi Picoult
“I’m gone now, but I’m still very near, death can never separate us. Each time you feel a gentle breeze, it’s my hand caressing your face. Each time the wind blows, it carries my voice whispering your name. When the wind blows your hair ever so slightly, think of it as me pushing a few stray hairs back in place. When you feel a few raindrops fall on your face, it’s me placing soft kisses. At night look up in the sky and see the stars shining so brightly. I’m one of those stars and I’m winking at you and smiling with delight. For never forget, you’re the apple of my eye.” —Mary M Green