Grief Healing Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

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

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

- Rose Kennedy

source: Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

topic: Time, Pain, Get Well, Time Heals All, Time Heals All Wounds

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

- Henri Nouwen

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

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

topic: Heartbreak, Hope, Lost Love, Deep Grief, Deep Sorrow

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

The only cure for grief is action.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

topic: Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Stages Of Grief

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

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

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

source: "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

topic: Beauty, Pain, Remains, Stages Of Grief, Pain And Loss

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

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Grief, Heart, Sadness, Mourning Loss Loved One, Recovering From Grief

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

- Arthur Golden

source: Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House

topic: Grief, Grieving, One Day, Memories Of A Geisha, Mourning A Loss

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Sad, Get Well, Grief, Magnus Bane, Time Heals All

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

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 do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Death

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

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

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

- Marcel Proust

source: "Remembrance of Things Past". Volume 3,

topic: Grieving, Suffering, Healed, Grief And Healing, Grief Healing

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

- Patti Smith

topic: Grief, Grieving, Hands, Just Kids, Grief And Healing

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.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

topic: Grief Healing

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or 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 A Grollman

source: Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

topic: Spiritual, Grief, Emotional, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

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

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

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

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

topic: Friendship, Grief, Healing, Making Friends, Bff

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

topic: Sad, Sympathy, Stars, Sorrow Love, Meaningful Death

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

- Moliere

topic: Courage, Grief, Grieving, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

- Rita Mae Brown

source: Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

topic: Single, Gratitude, Grateful, Loss Loved One Inspirational, Love And Gratitude

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

Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Letting Go, Pain, Grief, Sorting, Grief And Healing

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

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Art, Integrity, Healing, Healer, Grief And Healing

Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was for us, and the more intimately we experience what her love meant for us. Real, deep love is, as you know, very unobtrusive, seemingly easy and obvious, and so present that we take it for granted. Therefore, it is only in retrospect - or better, in memory - that we fully realize its power and depth. Yes, indeed, love often makes itself visible in pain.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Pain, Memories, Real, Real Deep, Grief And Healing