Grief Comfort Quotes:

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Sad, Children, Differences, Our Condolences, Losing Love

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

topic: Sympathy, Memories, Knowing, Inspirational Condolences, Memory Loss

Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Grieving, Journey, Knowing, Comfort The Grieving, Grief Comfort

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Life, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Spiritual, Make You Cry, Someone Dying

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Great Feelings, Physical Beauty, Say I Love You, Long Relationship

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Fear, Grief, Yawning, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

topic: Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

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-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

- Dan Rather

source: Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

topic: Courage, Cancer, Grief, Inspirational Condolences, Be Courageous

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

- John Donne

source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

topic: Teamwork, Men, Islands, Indivisible, Inspirational Diversity

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Death, Pain, Grief, Joy And Grief, Inspirational Bereavement

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Sea, Rivers, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Grief

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

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

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

topic: Love, Life, Death, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

- Harold S. Kushner

source: Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

topic: Perfect, People, Forgiving, Why Things Happen, When Bad Things Happen

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Dog, Cutting, Piano, Death Poems, Comfort The Grieving

Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'

- Saint Boniface

topic: Powerful, Light, Yoke, King James Bible, Stress And Anxiety

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

- William Penn

source: Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

topic: Sympathy, Death, Love Is, Inspirational Condolences, Memorial For Loved One

Grief makes one hour ten.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Grief, Grieving, Hours, One Hour, Grief Comfort

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

topic: Strength, Time, Flower, Inspirational Bereavement, Our Condolences

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Pain, Being Alone, Hands, Bff, Female Friends

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking, Huts, Mans Search For Meaning

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

- James Thurber

topic: Dog, Nature, Animal, I Love My Dog, Labrador Dogs

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Song, Hurt, Laughter, Comfort The Grieving, Grief Comfort

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Grief, Grieving, Losing Someone, Deep Grief, Grief Comfort

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

topic: Life, Positive, Leadership, Huts, Mans Search For Meaning

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Wherever You Are, Inspirational Condolences

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

- Robert Browning

topic: Learning, Grieving, Sorrow, Inspirational Grief, Death Comfort

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong, Scoliosis, I Am Strong

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Death, Gratitude, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.

- Henri Nouwen

source: "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

topic: Love, Friendship, Pain, Bff, Female Friends

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

- Thomas Campbell

topic: Prayer, Condolences, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

- Solomon

topic: Dance, Dancing, Laughing, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Mourning

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

- Rossiter W. Raymond

source: Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

topic: Sympathy, Death, Military, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences