Recovering From Grief Quotes:

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

- Kenji Miyazawa

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

Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul

- Kay Hooper

source: Kay Hooper (2016). “What Dreams May Come”, p.54, Loveswept

topic: Hands, Differences, Soul, Without Trust, Love Without Trust

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

- John Wayne

topic: Journey, Grieving, Being Afraid, Recovering From 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

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

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

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

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

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

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

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

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

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, May Flowers, Inspirational Gardening

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Woody Allen

source: "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Afraid Of Death, Meaningful Death

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

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

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

- Jacques Prevert

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

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

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

- Moliere

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