850 Inspirational Grief Quotes To Help You Feel Less Alone (2023)
1. “There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.” ― Christopher Moore
2. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
3. “The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with; Nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”
4. “When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” – Korean Proverb
5. "No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
6. 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
7. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
8. “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
9. “It’s coming on Christmas
10. Healing does not come after grief, but rather through it. And you do not grieve by training yourself to stop missing your loved one; rather, by acknowledging how much you really do miss them.
11. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wordsworth
12. She was no longer wrestling with grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thought. — George Eliot
13. You’ve felt the grief and sadness along with the anger associated with your breakup. Your body is literally a giant tank filled with emotions, and they need to be released.” – Andi Dorfman
14. “In the memory of someone who touched so many lives and brought such happiness. May they rest in peace.” – Unknown
15. Between grief and nothing, I will take grief. – William Faulkner
16. “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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving
17. “Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Gloria Naylor
18. “To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before”
19. “And once the storm is over you won’t remember you how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about.”
20. “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.”
21. How do you expect me to cope up with the grief your death, when you were the only person who understood me for what I was and not for what I could be? I miss you, dad.
22. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”—Aeschylus
23. ”. . . grief makes one hour ten.” – William Shakespeare
24. “Someday soon, we all will be together
25. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we love. Where there is deep grief, there is great love.” — Unknown
26. Sorry for always handing in my homework late. I’m trying my best to become a better student. Happy birthday and I hope that marking my essays late doesn’t bring you too much grief.
27. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” — Thornton Wilder
28. Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was. - Hebrew Proverb
29. “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” – Marcel Proust
30. “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
31. “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner
32. There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
33. I missed you today
34. “Do not be disheartened if you find yourself amidst grief because all things pass, and this will too. Rather be glad because joyful days will soon envelope you.” ― Sushil Rungta
35. “He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”
36. Wisdom from Winnie the Pooh
37. When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure. — Unknown
38. Anyways, death is not the end of everything. It is only a path to seeing your creator. But, we will continue to miss it.
39. “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
40. "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
41. 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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. - Washington Irving
42. Nothing can justify your death. It was just an unfortunate incident. How we wish you will survive that terrible incident. You will forever be in our hearts active and alive.
43. Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief? – Sir William Blake
44. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” ― Jack Thorne
45. “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
46. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ~ E.A. Bucchianeri
47. 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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving
48. “Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith…It is the price of love.” – Anonymous
49. “Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.” ― Katherine Owen
50. “The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.' When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass' helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass' reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.”
51. “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.” – Earl Grollman
52. “I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.”
53. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
54. "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
55. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear. - Kate O'Neill
56. “Strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.”
57. “The best advice that I got during counseling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way.” – Rachel Crawford
58. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” — Thornton Wilder
59. “Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire
60. “Loss can remind us that life itself is a gift.” – Louise Hay and David Kessler
61. “You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” – Mahatma Gandhi
62. “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”– Bessie Anderson Stanley
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64. “But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.”
65. “Death. It’s around more than people realize.” ― Jessica Sorensen
66. “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson
67. “The years may pass but you will stay… as near and dear as yesterday” – Unknown
68. She was my ultimate reason for living and my favorite person in the world. Now, that you decided to leave me. You have caused me a painful heartbreak. But I will keep on missing you for life.
69. The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can.”— Grey’s Anatomy
70. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
71. “She was no longer wrestling with grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thought.” — George Eliot
72. When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind. - Anonymous
73. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
74. “Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don’t turn your hair gray. Don’t carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don’t lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”― Bryant McGill
75. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”―Terri Guillemets
76. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
77. 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.
78. “Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief… as long as you make room for other things too.” – “Bubbles,” The Wire
79. “I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” — Alyson Noel, Evermore
80. “My mom has experienced a lot of loss in her life and she told me at one point, there is an empowerment that comes with grief—at some point you find it. It’s very hard but you will find it, and I think at a certain point you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise.” — Lea Michele
81. “Do not be disheartened if you find yourself amidst grief because all things pass, and this will too. Rather be glad because joyful days will soon envelope you.” ― Sushil Rungta
82. Say not in grief: ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
83. We hope this blanket will bring you warmth and support in your time of grief and in the days to come. With our deepest condolences.
84. “My sister may not always be at my side, but she is always in my heart.” – Unknown
85. “Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.”
86. “Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.” ― Katherine Owen
87. The dead are held in such high esteem that we only remember the good things, and we not only forgive their faults but we forget them. - Jen DeLuca
88. “All things grow with time, except grief.” —Jewish proverb
89. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” –Abraham Lincoln
90. She was no longer wrestling with grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thought. — George Eliot
91. After seeing your body sleeping in that coffin, I begin to imagine how much I will miss you. Till now, I’m still missing you.
92. You deserve my very best, but you never waited to receive my best. But I still love you even after you have gone home. I still love us.
93. Say not in grief: ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” — Hebrew Proverb
94. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
95. I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.
96. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built of a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.”
97. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy
98. “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
99. So Eden sank to grief,
100. “True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.” — Alicia Barnhart
101. “There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving
102. “We do not ‘get over’ a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts, we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We remember.” — Nathalie Himmelrich
103. “It’s not about getting over it it’s about learning to live with it.” — After Chloe
104. “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.”—Leo Tolstoy
105. Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” – Orson Scott Card
106. “Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.” — Christopher Morley
107. “If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.” — Megan Devine
108. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
109. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
110. I’ll miss you forever
111. “Gone is the face we loved so dear. Silent is the voice we loved to hear. Too far away for sight or speech. But not too far for thought to reach.” – Unknown
112. 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. – Earl Grollman
113. “Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.” – Thomas G. Stemberg
114. “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.”
115. “Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” — William Shakespeare
116. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin
117. “Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.” — Meryn G. Callander
118. No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
119. There is one thing I can say for certain about grief: it will change you. Whether you choose to defeat grief or be defeated, you will be changed. - Glenn Cameron
120. 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. — Earl Grollman
121. My grief lies onward and my joy behind. – Shakespeare, Sonnet I
122. Tears are the silent language of grief.
123. “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.” — Matthew 25:21
124. “A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain. not the lack of it.” – Vironika Tugaleva
125. “Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.” — Andrew Solomon
126. “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.”
127. You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
128. “I am sending you this card to let you know that I am thinking of you. I am sorry for your loss.”
129. “Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” – Renee Wood
130. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
131. “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
132. “At times in life you have to leave people where they left you.” – Angel Moreira
133. “Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours.”—Hebrew Proverb
134. The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new. - Haruki Murakami
135. “All things grow with time, except grief.” — Jewish Proverb
136. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
137. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy
138. “There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.”
139. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”
140. “Words can’t express how saddened we are to hear of your loss.”
141. 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. — Earl Grollman
142. “The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found.” – Unknown
143. When you left, our hope became scattered and bastardized. We are missing every one of the moments you have spent with us. The way you rectify us for our wrong deed and act is still ringing afresh in my heart. I felt bad about losing a personality like you. But then, I will continue to love you.
144. I talk about him, not because I’m constantly living in pain. I’m not anymore, but in my world, this is my normal, and I’d rather live honestly and out loud. Joy, love, happiness, and gratefulness are my everyday, but so are death, loss, heartache, and grief. – Scribbles and Crumbs
145. Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. - William Shakespeare
146. “We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.”
147. You left us without giving us a note of exit. How can death be so harsh to you? You will remain fresh in our hearts. We love you, beloved.
148. “Bury me so I can go to Djel. Bury me so I can take root and follow the water north.”
149. “You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.”
150. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
151. “You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton
152. When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”― Rosamund Lupton
153. I will continue to leave with this painful feeling of missing you. I love every minute we spend together. I will always remember you for those kind gestures of yours. Rest on, mother.
154. “At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.”
155. Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anonymous
156. “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
157. "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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving
158. “If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.” — Mitch Albom
159. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for care, love and that is not nothing.”
160. “How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.” — Eric Hoffer
161. “There is grace in grief and strength in sorrow.” ― Annie Dougherty
162. “Say not in grief, ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
163. “Chase away sorrow by living.” – Melissa Marr
164. “I promise, Matthias. I’ll take you home.”
165. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
166. “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.”
167. "It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.” — Ovid
168. “Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief… as long as you make room for other things too.”
169. “It was a portion of my own self-analysis, my reaction to my father’s death—that is to say, to the most important event, the most poignant loss of a man’s life.” – Sigmund Freud
170. “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.”—Leo Tolstoy
171. So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
172. The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin
173. “Your legacy lives on in us, your loving family.” – Unknown
174. "No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.. — Faraaz Kazi
175. Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.”― Rumi
176. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
177. “When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”― Rosamund Lupton
178. “Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!”
179. “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”
180. “He chuckled at the memory, and then, in the instant, tears were burning in his eyes and rolling down his cheeks. That was always the way of grief: laughter and tears, joy and sorrow.”
181. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. — William Faulkner
182. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”—Kenji Miyazawa
183. You are the most perfect human being I have ever seen in my world. Your days on earth are uniquely spent.
184. “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”― Gail Caldwell
185. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.”
186. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”- Anne Frank
187. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. ” — E. A. Bucchianeri
188. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
189. “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.”
190. “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.”
191. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. - Terri Guillemets
192. “If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached. you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain. you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.”
193. “The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can.”— Grey’s Anatomy
194. Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness that he was.
195. “All things grow with time, except grief.” —Jewish proverb
196. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.“
197. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. - Clara Ortega
198. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. — William Faulkner
199. Baby, you will forever be missed by me. I will never forget the day you said Yes to me. Those words are still fresh in my heart. Please continue to rest in your heavenly sleep.
200. “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
201. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll
202. Dear God, Some days feel too hard. We’re hurting. Struggling. Fighting fear and worry at every turn. Thank you in the midst of it all, you haven’t left us to fend for ourselves. Forgive us for doubting you are there. Forgive us for thinking you’ve forgotten. Forgive us for believing we somehow know the better way. You are fully trustworthy. You are All-Powerful. You are Able. You are Lord over every situation no matter how difficult it may seem. You are Healer and will never waste the grief we carry today. You will use all things for good in some way. Anything is possible with you. Nothing is too difficult for you.
203. “But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.” – Mitch Albom, For One More Day
204. “The accumulation of grief over one lifetime is more then one heart can bear.”Robert explained.”Only the heartless could withstand more.Or the very young,those too naive to truly understand loss.” ― James Rollins
205. Honest quotes about grief: Happiness
206. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”—Sophocles
207. “I’ll be seeing you, in all the old familiar places, that this heart of mine embraces, all day through.” – Billie Holiday, I’ll Be Seeing You
208. Say not in grief: ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was. – Hebrew Proverb
209. 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
210. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
211. “When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.” – Unknown
212. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” — Jose N. Harris
213. “Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” — William Shakespeare
214. The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” — Hilary Stanton Zunin
215. “How do you expect me to cope up with the grief of your death when you were the only person who understood me for what I was and not for what I could be? I miss you, dad.” —Unknown
216. Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. - William Shakespeare
217. I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love.”– Anonymous
218. Nothing can fill your spaces in our hearts. Though we have lost you to death, we will never allow grief to make us forget about you. We will continue loving you, mother.
219. “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
220. “Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”
221. “Parents of children with special needs love their kids and want to do everything they can to encourage their healing, reduce their pain, and improve their quality of life. When parents fail this calling, despite their best efforts, they often struggle with feelings of guilt and grief.” – Gary Chapman & Jolene Philo
222. “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.” – Stephen Vincent Benet
223. “Tenderly, may time heal your sorrow. Gently, may your friends ease your pain. Softly, may peace replace heartaches. And my warmest memories remain.” — Unknown
224. 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
225. “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner
226. Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.
227. “A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”
228. What is tiny, causing me lots of grief, and will make its appearance in (birth month)?
229. “In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
230. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”—William Shakespeare
231. “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.”
232. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller
233. “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
234. “All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”
235. “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
236. “He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
237. How can we cope without you? How can we smile without hearing your voice during the day? How can we move ahead and pursue our dreams without those words of encouragement from you? Death is indeed a very wicked spirit to cut short the life of such an innocent man like you. We will miss you forever.
238. The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can. - Grey’s Anatomy
239. “Thank you for being tenderhearted and compassionate in the face of grief and joy-filled events. Thank you for becoming part of our family, even when it demanded you to sacrifice time with your own family.” — Unknown Author
240. “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.” – Sophocles
241. You will feel things like worry, struggle, boredom, anger, and even grief on your journey to recovery.
242. “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. ”
243. For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.” — C.S. Lewis
244. “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1
245. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.” — Sophocles
246. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
247. “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis
248. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” –
249. “A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.” – Alanis Morissette
250. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
251. Grief is love
252. “So Eden sank to grief,
253. “I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.” —Prince Harry
254. Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. - V.C. Andrews
255. “Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”
256. “If you trade your authenticity for safety. you may experience the following: anxiety. depression. eating disorders. addiction. rage. blame. resentment. and inexplicable grief.”
257. “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” — Emily Giffin
258. Just once
259. “We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.” –
260. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”—William Shakespeare
261. 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.
262. “Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
263. “At the blueness of skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.”
264. 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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. — Washington Irving
265. 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.
266. “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.”
267. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” — Maya Angelou
268. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories.”
269. We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it. - Elizabeth Berrien
270. “Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn.” – Native American Poem
271. “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.” — C.S. Lewis
272. 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
273. I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.. — Prince Harry
274. I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. - Lisa Goich-Andreadis
275. “If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”
276. “Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear.”
277. His death brings new experience to my life that of a wound that will not heal. - Ernst Jünger
278. “The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near.” –Margaret Sanger
279. “One more time
280. 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
281. "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
282. You are a great man of valor. Why you chose to leave so suddenly is still unknown to me. But your deeds will continue to speak for you here on earth as you will be missed.
283. “Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
284. “Nina,” he said, pressing her hand to his heart. “I am already home.”
285. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
286. “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 messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.” –Washington Irving
287. “There is grief in change. Be careful not to mistake grief as a sign you’re doing the wrong thing.”
288. “Give the sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
289. “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.”– Norman Cousins
290. 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
291. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
292. “What ails you fellow?” called up the wise, but simple man. “Come and join me and take a rest, for your form is such that I see a need in you to share the burden that you carry.”
293. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.” — Laurence Binyon
294. What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”― Gail Caldwell
295. It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis
296. “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
297. “There are many stages of grief. It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I’m a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.” — Jennifer Aniston
298. “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
299. “There is grace in grief and strength in sorrow.” ― Annie Dougherty
300. “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”—Richard Adams
301. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”—William Shakespeare
302. Good bye till we meet again. Together we can make hell into heaven. I am already missing you. Rest in peace, dear friend.You were my partner in crime, my support system, my punching bag. You were my to-go person. Now how do I survive without you? Dear friend, rest in peace.You have been in my thick and thin. We have created beautiful memories and you shall be alive in my heart and memories. Rest in peace, dear friend.Dear friend, I shall pray for your afterlife to be as beautiful as your life here. May you find good company there. I miss you.We have been friends since cullege. We have seen all ups and downs of life together. And now you leave me alone forever. May you rest in peace my dear friend!You were an important part of my life and that is what friends are for. You are irreplaceable my friend. Losing you has hit me hard. I pray that you have a peaceful afterlife.You were the one who encouraged me to take up different challenges in our early years. Without you I could not have achieved so much. Losing you is the biggest grief of my life. I pray for your departed soul.Dear friend, you have left behind a lovely family who loved you the most. All your friends are in grief of losing you. May your departed soul rest in peace!You have achieved many great things in life along with loving family and good friends. Your empire will miss you forever. My god's reward you with a beautiful afterlife. Rest in peace!
303. “I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love.”– Anonymous
304. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wordsworth
305. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. - Thornton Wilder
306. “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
307. Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.” ― Katherine Owen
308. “Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.” – Jason Becker
309. There are days
310. If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.” — Megan Devine
311. Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire. – Sylvia Townsend Warner
312. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” — Faraaz Kazi
313. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hillary Stanton Zunin
314. Our grief is as individual as our lives.
315. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. – Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
316. “I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.” ― Leigh Bardugo
317. He was the lone survivor. He was 12 years old, an American kid alone in Thailand. He put on a tough shell and refused to cry. After all, he had been taught that boys don’t cry. He refused to give into the grief.
318. Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. - Euripides
319. “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Arthur Golden
320. Thank you for being tenderhearted and compassionate in the face of grief and joy-filled events. Thank you for becoming part of our family, even when it demanded you to sacrifice time with your own family
321. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday.” – Unknown
322. “And grief is not something you complete, But rather, you endure. Grief is not a task to finish. And move on, But an element of yourself-An alteration of your being.” — Gwen Flowers
323. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
324. You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson
325. “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” —Joanne Cacciatore
326. “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” ― George Eliot
327. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God. Good night.”
328. “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.”
329. What is tiny, causing me lots of grief, and will make its appearance in (birth month
330. “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
331. “Do not be disheartened if you find yourself amidst grief because all things pass, and this will too. Rather be glad because joyful days will soon envelope you.” ― Sushil Rungta
332. My friend, death has given you an undesired fate but what can we do? It is just a pity but we will continue to miss you till we meet again.
333. “Thank you for being tenderhearted and compassionate in the face of grief and joy-filled events. Thank you for becoming part of our family, even when it demanded you to sacrifice time with your own family.” — Unknown
334. “Take any emotion—love for a woman. or grief for a loved one. or what I’m going through. fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached. you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain. you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. “But by throwing yourself into these emotions. by allowing yourself to dive in. all the way. over your head even. you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say. ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment’.”
335. “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”― Gail Caldwell
336. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
337. The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. - Kristina McMorris
338. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
339. The song is ended but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin
340. Tears are the silent language of grief. – Voltaire
341. “I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love.”– Anonymous
342. “If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.” — Megan Devine
343. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — A.A. Milne
344. “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
345. The silent language of grief
346. “Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” — Shakespeare
347. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
348. “Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” — Shakespeare
349. I love you everyday. And now I will miss you every day. - Mitch Albom
350. “A world of grief and pain, flowers bloom – even then.” – Kobayashi Issa
351. “The best advice that I got during counselling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way.” — Rachel Crawford
352. “Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!” – Latoya Alston
353. “My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.” – Laurie Beth Jones
354. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
355. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
356. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin
357. No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
358. The silent language of grief
359. “Don't run away from grief, o’ soul. Look for the remedy inside the pain because the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.”
360. “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
361. Honest quotes about grief: Tonight
362. “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis
363. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” ~ Alexandre Dumas
364. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
365. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hillary Stanton Zunin
366. “That is — your friend?"
367. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anonymous
368. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. - Maya Angelou
369. “Your absence walks through the door every single day.” – Helen Lyon
370. “There is no pain so great as the Memory of joy in present grief.” —Aeschylus
371. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson
372. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. - Anne Roiphe
373. Dear father, you will continue to be remembered in our life story. You deserve it all. You have such an amazing personality. You taught us how to love God unconditionally. How I wish you are still alive to witness the success of your children. Rest in perfect peace, father. We will continue to miss you.
374. "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum
375. “Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don’t turn your hair gray. Don’t carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don’t lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”― Bryant McGill
376. "Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.” – Stefan Kanfer
377. Honest quotes about grief: Happiness
378. “If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”
379. “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
380. “When someone is grieving, you don’t have to say anything. Just be present. Be nonjudgmental. Let them cry, scream, or sit in silence. You don’t have to fix them.” – Dana Arcuri
381. “There is nothing wrong with grief. It’s a natural extension of love. It’s a healthy and sane response to loss.” — Megan Devine
382. “So when you need her touch
383. “We do not “get over” a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts, we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We remember.” ― Nathalie Himmelrich
384. Grief is existential testimony to the worth of the one loved. That worth abides. So I own my grief. I do not try to put it behind me, to get over it, to forget it. Every lament is a love-song. - Nicholas Wolterstorff
385. Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening so your life will stay fresh.”― Rumi
386. A world of grief and pain, flowers bloom—even then.
387. “Rejoice in happiness, be patient in grief, and thank the Lord for all you have. Have a beautiful Sunday.”
388. “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
389. There is nothing wrong with grief. It’s a natural extension of love. It’s a healthy and sane response to loss.” — Megan Devine
390. “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.”—Leo Tolstoy
391. “There is nothing wrong with grief. It’s a natural extension of love. It’s a healthy and sane response to loss.” — Megan Devine
392. “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.” — Meghan Markle
393. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
394. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”
395. “Know when to seek peace / For as long as the moon shall rise / For as long as the rivers shall flow / For as long as the sun shall shine / For as long as the grass shall grow / Let us have peace.”
396. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”
397. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
398. Your death is questionable and it always brings doubt to our hearts whether you are deliberately killed by some evil people or not. Nevertheless, you don’t deserve such. This family will continue to remember your good deeds. Rest on.
399. “We pray the love of God enfolds you during your journey through grief. We send you thoughts of comfort.”
400. So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. –E.A. Bucchianeri
401. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
402. “I missed you today, just as I missed you yesterday. Just as I will miss you for the rest of my life.” — Unknown
403. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison
404. “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” —Swami Sivananda
405. “For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book, and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.” –Fernandez de Andrada
406. 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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. – Washington Irving
407. “Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift kick to the shin.”
408. “The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.’ When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.” – Joey Green
409. “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner
410. “To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We’ve shared private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” – Clara Ortega
411. “In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.” ~ Mata Amritanandamayi
412. “All things grow with time, except grief.” —Jewish proverb
413. “What is stronger
414. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets
415. “What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgment of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry. But as Gunther explained, ‘Society does not like to hear from us castaway mothers.’” — Soraya Chemaly
416. "No matter how badly your heart is broken, the world does not stop for your grief.” — Anonymous
417. So Eden sank to grief,
418. “Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” — Shakespeare
419. “The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.”– Erin Banks
420. “Where there is grief, there is no space for new love. For, in fact, grief is in itself a love that is dark, transformed in shape but not in its structure. ” ― Paraschiva Florescu
421. “It is. I suppose. the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into. that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”
422. “Losing someone when you’re young is the greatest pain anyone can face.” – Amory Blaine
423. Grief: The last act of love
424. The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hillary Stanton Zunin
425. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
426. “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.” — C.S. Lewis
427. “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
428. To the one
429. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
430. “Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” – William Shakespeare
431. You will permanently remain in my dear heart. You die without telling us but we will continue to love you more.
432. Not okay
433. “We pray the love for the lost is forever carried in your memory.”
434. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi
435. “No one spread more joy in one lifetime.” — Unknown
436. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories.”—Leo Buscaglia
437. The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he doesn't give ye a mother but once. -Harriet Beecher Stowe
438. “With sympathy, thinking of you at this sad time and sending love.” – Unknown
439. If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”—Sophocles
440. 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.”—Leo Tolstoy
441. The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
442. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” ― Rob Liano
443. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown
444. “To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” – Clara Ortega
445. 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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. — Washington Irving
446. “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.” – Earl Grollman
447. “Everything I am, you helped me be.” – Unknown
448. May the passage of time heal your grief.
449. Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death. - Anonymous
450. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” —Unknown
451. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas
452. “The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don’t give ye a mother but once.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
453. The sun can break through the darkest cloud; love can brighten the gloomiest day. - William Arthur Ward
454. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
455. Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
456. Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire
457. You will permanently be missed in our home. You have bought so many changes in our home. We will cherish you more than before.
458. “I’m missing [insert name] along with you. With heartfelt condolences.”
459. “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
460. I miss you
461. 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.
462. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”—Aeschylus
463. ”. . . grief makes one hour ten.” – William Shakespeare
464. “The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can.”— Grey’s Anatomy
465. “If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached. you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain. you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions. by allowing yourself to dive in. all the way. over your heard even. you experience them fully and completely.”
466. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
467. “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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving
468. “One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.” — Pierre Corneille
469. “At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.” – Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer
470. “Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
471. I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn't loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better. - Adam Silvera
472. “If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”
473. “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
474. “You left me boundaries of pain
475. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
476. “Even without the guilt, grief is often a daily companion of parents raising kids with special needs. The parents of four children, two of whom have significant special needs, are well-acquainted with grief. They say they grieve after each failed milestone and additional diagnosis.” – Gary Chapman & Jolene Philo
477. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
478. ”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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
479. “A friend is one with whom I share happiness, but a best friend is one with whom I can share grief, too. Happy birthday to my best friend!”
480. Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it break. – William Shakespeare
481. “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” – Joanne Cacciatore
482. “Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.”
483. Little by little, grief slowly fades. But love always burns brightly.
484. When it is darkest, we can see the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
485. “The beautiful thing about hope is that when friends have forsaken you, there is chaos all around you, and you are in the deep dark valley of despair, scenes of sheer terror and grief are all around you, HOPE is all we have left to hold on to.” – Yvonne I. Wilson, KAEN
486. “I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.”
487. 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 messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love. - Washington Irving
488. Additionally, you may use a sympathy text to provide the recipient with kind words that will encourage them to think back on the life of the person they have lost. The mess might spark introspection or present a fresh viewpoint on what it means to lose a loved one. Our words can go a long way toward making a grieving person feel loved and supported, even while they cannot erase the grief of losing a loved one.Rest in Peace StatusI'm incredibly sorry that you are no longer with us. God bless you.The first time you say hello and the last time you say goodbye are the two toughest things in life to say.Before death separated us and I had to say goodbye to you, I had no idea how difficult it was. Peace be with you, my love!Sometimes, life seems so irrational. I'm crying right now for the one who gave me the chuckle. To me, you were everything. Peace be with you, my love!Everywhere he went, he shared joy and love. It's unimaginable that he's gone. Peace be upon him.Few people have had such a profound impact on my life as you did. I appreciate you being there. Peace be with you.I'm sending my deepest condulences. May the Lord grant you the fortitude to get through this trying moment.Even though it's the one you kind of wants to happen last, death is just another stage of life.He was a man with a pure heart. He will be sorely missed. May he rest in peace, his soul.The thought that she is no longer with us makes me very sad. May she rest in peace, my dear.
489. “Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire
490. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” — Hilary Stanton Zunin
491. “Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.” – Rodgers and Hammerstein
492. 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.
493. “All things grow with time, except grief.”
494. “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
495. Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” — Shakespeare
496. “No matter what age… I’ll always need you mom.” – Unknown
497. The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. - Hilary Stanton Zunin
498. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
499. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”—Aeschylus
500. It takes great strength to work through deep grief. You have that strength, even if you don’t know it yet. Your mettle will be proved in the experience, and you will emerge with a fuller capacity to sympathize, to appreciate, to remember, to live, and to love.
501. “There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” – Cassandra Clare
502. “Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” – William Shakespeare
503. “God bless you! May you never know disappointment, sadness, grief, and trouble. Be happy!”
504. “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” — Emily Giffin
505. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
506. “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.” – Patrick Swayze
507. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
508. “Give the sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
509. “The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love: it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.”
510. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.” –Leo Buscaglia
511. Honest quotes about grief: Tonight
512. "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” ― George Eliot
513. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
514. Your grief is as individual as you are.
515. “In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it and there are some days when it is heavier than others. Some days, I hardly know it is there, distracted as I am by present joys and excitement; while other days, the burden is cripplingly-heavy and I can hardly breathe under the weight of grief.” -L.M. Browning
516. How excellent have you spent your life on earth! Your life will be a great example to those emulating you. We will greatly miss you, dear. Goodbye.
517. “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.”
518. “Say not in grief: ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
519. Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
520. “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
521. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
522. “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson
523. May the clouds of grief pass you by and may your life be shined upon by the rainbow that comes. Happy birthday my dearest stepdaughter.
524. There are days…
525. “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
526. “A world of grief and pain, flowers bloom—even then.” — Kobayashi Issa
527. “The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.” — E. M. Forster
528. ”. . . grief makes one hour ten.” – William Shakespeare
529. “There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.” ― Christopher Moore
530. “To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.”
531. “What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgment of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry.” – Soraya Chemaly
532. “We pray the love of God enfolds you during your journey through grief. We send you thoughts of comfort.”
533. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
534. “What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren’t. Somebody tries to say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.’ People say that to me. There’s no language for it. Sorry doesn’t do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.” — Toni Morrison
535. “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” ― George R.R. Martin
536. “If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.” ― Clifford Odets
537. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
538. "Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.” — Thomas Fuller
539. “You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton
540. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
541. “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.”
542. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” — Hilary Stanton Zunin
543. "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
544. Grief quotes: Learning to swim
545. “If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.” – Lemony Snicket
546. “There are no quick fixes to grief. No easy answers. Every expression of grief that wants to be felt and honoured and given its space, must be allowed…in order to heal.” – Tom Zuba
547. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.” — Sophocles
548. 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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
549. “Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
550. “Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing because it is also a process of grieving.” Meryn G. Callander
551. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
552. “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” – Orson Scott Card
553. “Every day of our lives, our Father is with us. Every day our Father is here with us spiritually anyway.” – Ziggy Marley
554. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
555. Allow the love of others to lift you in this time of grief.
556. This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” – Rumi
557. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. Unknown
558. Sweet are the memories of your lovely moments with us. We are missing you tremendously. Sleep on friend.
559. I knew you never wanted to go at this time but death cut off your living. We will miss you for your great contribution to our organization. Rest in Peace.
560. “Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
561. “Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
562. May the clouds of grief pass you by and may your life be shined upon by the rainbow that comes. Happy birthday my dearest stepdaughter.
563. “We run from grief because loss scares us. yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.”
564. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief the closer is God.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
565. “So Eden sank to grief,
566. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
567. “Tears are the silent language of grief.”
568. “For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.”
569. I will forever miss you. Your place will never be replaced in my heart.35. Your death is quite surprising but what can I do other than hold you in my heart? Rip.
570. “When you were gone, it felt as if we lost a part of our own body. It was as if you took us along with you, with all the pain of losing someone we never thought we’d lose.” – Unknown
571. A brave action is often followed by grief
572. “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” – Gail Caldwell
573. “In you, I’ve found the love of my life.”
574. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” –C.S. Lewis
575. Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” – William Shakespeare
576. You can never be underestimated in my life. You are my beloved. Seeing you leave this world without saying an appropriate goodbye to me, caused me a very painful experience. Keep on resting.
577. “There is no solution to death….Life intends to kill us.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers
578. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following—anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
579. “Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.” — Christina Rossetti
580. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
581. “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.”
582. You have gone but yet, your good deeds are still talking about you to the whole world. Regardless of that, we will always be following in the footsteps you left behind.
583. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
584. “Do not be disheartened if you find yourself amidst grief because all things pass, and this will too. Rather be glad because joyful days will soon envelope you.” ― Sushil Rungta
585. “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
586. “Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours.”—Hebrew Proverb
587. Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
588. “In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it and there are some days when it is heavier than others. Some days, I hardly know it is there, distracted as I am by present joys and excitement; while other days, the burden is cripplingly-heavy and I can hardly breathe under the weight of grief.” — L.M. Browning
589. “And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.’” – Author Unknown
590. “Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire
591. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” -- Brené Brown
592. “Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.” —Sue Grafton
593. 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.” – Earl Grollman
594. 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.
595. There is no eloquence
596. “If you trade your authenticity for safety. you may experience the following: anxiety. depression. eating disorders. addiction. rage. blame. resentment. and inexplicable grief.” – Brene Brown
597. “My mom has experienced a lot of loss in her life and she told me at one point, there is an empowerment that comes with grief—at some point you find it. It’s very hard but you will find it, and I think at a certain point you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise.” — Lea Michele
598. “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
599. 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.
600. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi
601. “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
602. “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” — Joni Mitchell
603. “A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother… A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.” — The Proverbs of Solomon
604. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” — Thornton Wilder
605. Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours.”—Hebrew Proverb
606. “All things grow with time, except grief.” — Jewish Proverb
607. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” – Marcel Proust
608. “There is no death, daughter. People only die when we forget them,’ my mother explained shortly before she left me. ‘If you can remember me, I will be with you always.’” –Isabel Allende
609. “All things grow with time, except grief.” — Jewish Proverb
610. “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”
611. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
612. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” – Brené Brown
613. “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” – Marcel Proust
614. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi
615. “The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stopping on some linear timeline in grief.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
616. “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
617. “My mom has experienced a lot of loss in her life and she told me at one point, there is an empowerment that comes with grief—at some point you find it. It’s very hard but you will find it, and I think at a certain point you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise.” — Lea Michele
618. “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
619. 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.
620. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
621. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”
622. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” —E.A. Bucchianeri
623. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Anonymous
624. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
625. The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can. - Grey’s Anatomy
626. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hillary Stanton Zunin
627. Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath. - Zoe Forward
628. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
629. All things grow with time, except grief.” —Jewish proverb
630. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” — Brené Brown
631. “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, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” ~Washington Irving
632. Yet you are not here
633. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.” — Sophocles
634. “If I die before you
635. “You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton
636. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
637. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”—Sophocles
638. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” —Faraaz Kazi
639. “In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.”
640. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
641. “The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
642. “Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours.”—Hebrew Proverb
643. “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” – Orson Scott Card
644. “You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And that is — it is what we do with that loss — our ability to transform it into a positive event —that is one of my father’s greatest lessons.” – Ted Kennedy Jr.
645. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.“
646. “I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.”
647. “When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.” – Mitch Albom
648. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
649. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov
650. “A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
651. You’re everywhere
652. So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
653. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
654. “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.”
655. “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
656. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” — J.K. Rowling
657. Grief is a testament to how deeply someone impacted your life. Strong grief, difficult grief, passionate grief, angry grief – these reactions mean that their life affected yours. Your grief is thus a confirmation that the meaning of their life will live on in yours.
658. “The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found.” – Author Unknown
659. “We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” – J. W.
660. “You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”
661. “If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.” — Megan Devine
662. “Your experience of grief is powerful, yet so is your ability to love and heal.” – Unknown
663. “There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.” ― Christopher Moore
664. “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin
665. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner
666. “Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces — down to the last glassy splinter.” –Saul Bellow
667. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
668. "Poetry is about grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
669. “Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” –Vicki Harrison
670. “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
671. Your absence makes the whole world seem empty. No words can explain the sadness in the depths of my soul. For as long as the world keeps spinning, I will miss you. - Anonymous
672. “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” — Joanne Cacciatore
673. “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?”
674. Rain & rainbows
675. “When my grandmother died, time died, too, in this apartment.”― Banana Yoshimoto
676. “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers
677. “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson
678. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy
679. “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” – Swami Sivananda
680. Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. – Pema Chodron
681. “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.”
682. The fact that something has happened to a million other people diminishes neither grief nor joy.
683. "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
684. “If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”
685. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
686. “The song has ended but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
687. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
688. In your time of grief remember that none of us really die -- we are kept alive by living in the memories that we made with them while we were here. Hold onto those memories. It is the key to living forward. - Anonymous
689. The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes
690. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
691. 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 messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love. - Washington Irving
692. Related: If the only cure for grief is action, here are some ways to memorialize your loved one.
693. "So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
694. “One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” ~ Chinese Proverb
695. Let patience be upon you in this time of grief.
696. When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing. - Rosamund Lupton
697. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” –Jewish Proverb
698. “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Unknown
699. “Lives are like rivers: Eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to.”
700. “Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was,’Did you bring joy?’ The second was, ‘Did you find joy?’”
701. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”
702. “The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.”– Yolanda King
703. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
704. “Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”— Mitch Albom
705. The more sympathy you give, the less you need.” — Malcom Forbes
706. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
707. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. - Emily Dickinson
708. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
709. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
710. “In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ.” –Ocean Vuong
711. “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore
712. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”—C. S. Lewis
713. If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. - A.A. Milne
714. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”—A.A. Milne
715. Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died. - Kathryn Orzech
716. “Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.” ― Avis Corea
717. Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure. - Sue Grafton
718. “Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you’ve lived.” ― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
719. “I never truly learned what the words ‘I miss you’ were until I reached for my mom’s hand and it wasn’t there.” – Unknown
720. “Hope
721. “Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.”
722. “And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they’d made of each other.” – Dennis Lehane
723. Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all. - Laura Inglés Wilder
724. Heartache
725. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
726. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
727. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
728. “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
729. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
730. “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.”
731. “The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.” – James Patterson
732. “Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks.” – Unknown
733. “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.”—Elizabeth Berrien
734. It has been five years now since you left us. You left us without any signs. Father, the hole your death dug into my heart is unbearable. How can I forget you? I have never imagined that I will be a fatherless child at age seven. I will continue to put you in my mind.
735. “The Sky looks different when you have someone you love up there.” — Unknown
736. “All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past.” ― Diana Palmer
737. “Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home.” ― John Ruskin
738. “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” — Unknown
739. In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams ... that is where you and I shall meet. — Lewis Carroll
740. After the final funeral of my father, then I realized how much he will be missed in the family. He is such a loving father, but death will not allow him to finish up his glorious mandate.
741. The dead never truly die. They simply change form. - Suzy Kassem
742. “The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.”
743. “All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family’s turn.” ― Ralph Webster
744. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” – Terry Pratchett
745. “I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love.”– Anonymous
746. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. - Jandy Nelson
747. Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. - Kate O'Neill
748. My body may remain here
749. “It doesn't matter who my father was; It matters who I remember he was.”
750. “When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” –
751. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”