The essence of being human is to be happy, unfortunately there is grief, and as human beings we want to reflect our grief out. In fact, grief either depresses or strengthens people.
We all grieve differently, but the important thing is to get out of that sad mood before getting depressed. For this, you must listen to yourself and you must trust the people who care about you. Inspirational grief quotes will help you cope with this multifaceted response, encourage you to overcome sorrow, and move on from a loss.
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Best Grief Quotes
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. John Green
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us. Helen Keller
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. J.R.R. Tolkien
If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. Winnie the Pooh
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God! Fyodor Dostoevsky
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C.S. Lewis
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
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
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri
Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. Euripides
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. William Shakespeare
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable hemophilia: You bleed and bleed and bleed. David Mitchell
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. C.S. Lewis
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. Orson Scott Card
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. Jodi Picoult
Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, ‘Why do people die?’ and ‘Why is this happening to me?’ Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all Caitlin Doughty
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. J.K. Rowling
There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start. Shel Silverstein
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
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
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
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
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
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go. Katharine Weber
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. Haruki Murakami
Grief is just love with no place to go. Jamie Anderson
There is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity. Alice Walker
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains. Anne Frank
Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. V.C. Andrews
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world the company of those who have known suffering. Helen Keller
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom. Rumi
The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. Elisabeth Kubler Ross
I have an angel watching over me. She is my mom.
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
To my mother in heaven, thank you for always loving me and guiding me. Even though you are no longer here with me I can still feel your love guiding me. You are always in my heart. I love you and miss you dearly.
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
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianer
In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ.
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. Pablo Neruda
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. Vicki Harrison
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. Sarah Dessen
One day we will remember how lucky we were to have known their love, with wonder, not grief.
Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.
Whenever I am missing you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn’t trade those moments for the world.
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I am because you were.
Mom, sometimes I wish you could come back, but I don’t want you to suffer again. I know you are with me and I will always love and miss you with all my heart. Until we meet again!
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia
Mom, you are the most beautiful memory I kept locked inside my heart.
Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. Paulo Coelho
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief. Emily Giffin
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk round it. Rachel Joyce
Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. Maya Angelou
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Pierre Auguste Renoir
There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible a wound that will never quite heal.
My mom has experienced a lot of loss in her life and she told me at one point, there is an empowerment that comes with grief at some point you find it. It’s very hard but you will find it, and I think at a certain point you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise. Lea Michele
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.
It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes is is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here Mitch Albom
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing Rosamund Lupton
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.
My mother is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it’s been too long since you missed them last. Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death. Laurell K. Hamilton
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go. Katharine Weber
No matter what age I’ll always need you mom.
