“Little by little, we let go of the loss…but never of love.”
– Unknown
Grief comes in our lives most unexpectedly. It brings severe pain of loss of loved ones, or ailments and misery. Sometimes, the wisdom of one who has already travelled the path gives us some solace. Sometimes words of wisdom may help us overcome the sense of loss.
A good quote may help put our thoughts into the perspective and provide some console. It also allows us to convey our message through words and feel a sense of belonging.
We hope that you will find some interesting quotes that will resonate with your thoughts and can comfort you and your loved ones in times of despair.
Grief Quotes
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear”
– C.S. Lewis
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
– J.K. Rowling
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”
– William Shakespeare
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.”
– Faraaz Kazi
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
– Pablo Neruda
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
– Emily Giffin
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
– Henry Wadsworth
Grief Healing Quotes
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days… “
– John Green
“Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.”
– Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day…unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.”
– Unknown
“Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.”
– Unknown
“My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love.”
– Unknown
“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
Grief and Loss Quotes
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places, that this heart of mine embraces all day through.”
– Billie Holiday
“One more day, One more time, One more sunset, maybe I’d be satisfied. But then again, I know what it would do. Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.”
– Diamond Rio
“Make the most of your regrets; Never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it ’til it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
– Mark Twain
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.”
– Helen Keller
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
– Queen Elizabeth II
“The irony about grief is that the person you want to talk to about how you feel is the person who is no longer here.”
– Unknown
Grief Inspirational Quotes
“To live in hearts, we leave behind is not to die.”
– Thomas Campbell
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
– Terry Pratchett
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
– Havelock Ellis
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
– Seneca
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
– Vicki Harrison
“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.”
– Unknown
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
– Winnie the Pooh
