Mourning is great sadness felt because someone has died. Profoundly inspirational mourning quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Famous Mourning 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 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 lessen 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 suffering. 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
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
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
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. Maya Angelou
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
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Henri Matisse
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
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o er wrought heart and bids it break. William Shakespeare
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
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Winnie the Pooh
There is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity. Alice Walker
Grief is just love with no place to go. Jamie Anderson
Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. V.C. Andrews
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains. Anne Frank
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
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
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 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
Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire
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
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Robert Southey
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
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us. Helen Keller
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
What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star dust or sea foam, flower, or winged air. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? Carson McCullers
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. Pablo Neruda
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. James O’Barr
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
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. Kahlil Gibran
Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. Sarah Dessen
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness. Thomas Bailey
Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell
I am because you were.
Death ends a life, not a relationship. Mitch Albom
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
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will 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
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
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Henri Mattise
When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. Robert Louis Stevenson
Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend. Sir Henry Taylor
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief. Emily Giffin
Wherever there is love, there is grief. A life without it is unthinkable.
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 around it. Rachel Joyce
May the peace that comes from the memories of love shared, comfort you now and in the days ahead.
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.
Time alone does not heal. It is the loyalty to life that heals.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Pierre Auguste Renoir
I can be changed by what happens to me, I refuse to be reduced by it. Maya Angelou
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
No one is ever as interested in everything you do as your mother, or as proud of you.
It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember
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
Memories are a special gift. The harvest of a life of love and happiness.
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing Rosamund Lupton
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prevert
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
Even if you are grieving, you are still allowed to enjoy your life.
However long or short it may be, it is precious too and shouldn’t be wasted. Elizabeth Postle
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
Grief is not the enemy. Grief can be one of our greatest teachers. Tom Zuba
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
Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser, so thank your past for a better future.
