Griefing Quotes:

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief, Inspirational Mourning, Cried

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

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

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

- Jacques Prevert

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

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

- Marcel Proust

source: A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

topic: Happiness, Sympathy, Depression, Sympathy Condolences, Body Temperature

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger... It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.

- Maureen Hunter

topic: Memories, Heart, Grieving, Come Back To Me, Griefing

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

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

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

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

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

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Inspirational, Dream, Why Things Happen, Sorrow And Happiness

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

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

- Henri Nouwen

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

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

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

topic: Peace, Grief, Sadness, Kindness And Compassion, Woe Is Me

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

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

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

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

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

topic: Broken Heart, Death, Fall, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

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

- Moliere

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

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

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

- Khalil Gibran

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

topic: Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

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

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

- Erich Fromm

topic: Grief, Grieving, Bereavement, Stages Of Grief, Mourning Death

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

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 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

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

topic: Love, Grief, Grieving, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Grief makes one hour ten.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Grief, Grieving, Use, Grief And Loss, Griefing

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

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Change, Loss, Grieving, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Loss

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

- Paul Gascoigne

topic: Grief, Years, Rangers, Griefing

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Grief, Eye, Grieving, Probing, Recovering From Grief

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

- Charles Dickens

topic: Loss, Grieving, Depth, Deep Grief, Width