Grief Loss Quotes:

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

- E. A. Bucchianeri

topic: Heartbreak, True Love, Heartbroken, Hurt And Pain, Hurt 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

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

topic: Grief, Grieving, Masters, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

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

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

- Henry Maudsley

source: Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Grief, Tears Falling, Tears Of Sorrow

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Death, Ends, Endless Love, Everlasting Love, Meaningful Death

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Death, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Joy And Grief, Stages Of Grief

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 Loss

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.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

topic: Love, Sad, Broken Heart, Deep Grief, Tears Of Sorrow

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Sad, Grief, Evil, Lord Of The Ring, Death Grief

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

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

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

- Jacques Prevert

topic: Positive, Happiness, Happy, Inner Happiness, Joy Happiness

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

- Lou Reed

source: "Vision : Defining Your Destiny in Life". Book by Stephen R. Covey, 2000.

topic: Grief, Adversity, Loss, Grief Loss

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

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

topic: Grief, Love You, Grieving, Inspirational Mourning, Mourning A Loss

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

topic: Death, Spiritual, Angel, Sorrow Love, Joy And Grief

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers

topic: Cute, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

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

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Death And Grieving, Death Grieving

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

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels

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 is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France

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

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

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

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

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

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

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

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

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

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

- Moliere

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

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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

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

- Kenji Miyazawa

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

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Sad, Death, Pain, Inspirational Grief, Death Of A Friend

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

topic: Sad, Grief, Wrestling, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

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

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

- John Irving

source: John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Death, Grief, Loss, When Someone Dies, Owen Meany