Memorable Grief Quotes

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"The pain of grief is the price we pay for love."
Dr. Colin Murray Parkes
"Grief is the mark of a great relationship."
Harriet Lerner
"Grief and roses both have thorns."
Portuguese Proverb
"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
"Grief is like the wind: it comes from nowhere and whispers to you."
Unknown
"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."
Hilary Stanton Zunin
"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
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"Grief is love that has lost its way."
Jamie Anderson
"Grief makes us gentle because it throws us back on the truth that we are completely dependent on God."
Paul Tournier
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
Seneca
"Grief is the garden of compassion. When you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."
Rumi
"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
Merle Shain
"Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a 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 Grollman
"Do not judge the bereaved. They are in a very dark place and there is no light that shines on them. They need your love and your compassion, not your judgment."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Grief never ends... But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love."
Unknown
"When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive."
Alan Paton
"Grief never ends... But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith... It is the price of love."
Unknown
"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."
Unknown
"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."
J.K. Rowling
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
Kenji Miyazawa
"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."
Keanu Reeves
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"The reality is, 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
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
C.S. Lewis
"Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you. Over time the wake gets smaller and smaller, until it's almost like you're back in smooth water again, but you're forever changed by the experience."
Rachel Vincent
"Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people."
Thomas Moore
"Grief is a necessary, painful process we all go through at one time or another."
Goldie Hawn
"Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love."
Unknown
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a 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 Grollman
"Grief never ends… But it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith… It is the price of love."
Unknown
"The only way to end grief was to go through it."
Marian Keyes
"Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human."
Sarah Dessen
"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."
Hilary Stanton Zunin
"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear."
C.S. Lewis
"Grief is love's unwillingness to let go."
Unknown
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
A.A. Milne
"Grief is not something you complete, but rather, you endure. Grief is not a task to finish and move on, but an element of yourself – an alteration of your being. A new way of seeing. A new definition of self."
Gwen Flowers
"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is love with no place to go."
Jamie Anderson
"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
"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose. For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
Samuel Johnson
"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."
Unknown
"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."
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."
Jamie Anderson
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
Pierre Auguste Renoir
"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."
John Taylor
"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
"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
"Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other."
Jandy Nelson
"Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity."
Terri Irwin
"We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime - not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love."
Judy Tatelbaum
"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."
Mahatma Gandhi
"When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive."
Nelson Mandela
"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
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance."
Ecclesiastes
"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."
Unknown
"Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love."
Unknown
"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"Grief and gratitude are kindred souls, each pointing to the beauty of what is transient and given to us for this time."
Patricia Campbell Carlson
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."
José N. Harris
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
William Shakespeare
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Queen Elizabeth II
"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 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."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a 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 Grollman
"Do not judge the bereaved, They find peace in their own time."
Saskya Pandita
"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
Veronica Roth
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
Washington Irving
"In times of grief and sorrow, I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."
Nicholas Sparks
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
Cicero
"The way sorrow becomes unspeakable is the way it also becomes infinite."
David Grossman
"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
James Russell Lowell
"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Never compare your grief. You, and only you walk your path."
Nathalie Himmelrich
"Grief is the rope burns left behind when what we have held to most dearly is pulled out of reach, beyond our grasp."
Stephen Levine
"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."
William Shakespeare
"He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it."
Turkish Proverb
"Grief is love turned into an eternal missing."
Rosamund Lupton
"The only cure for grief is action."
George Henry Lewes
"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."
Unknown
"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
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
Maya Angelou
"The only cure for grief is to grieve."
Earl Grollman
"Grief is a process, not a state."
Anne Grant
"Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith... It is the price of love."
Unknown
"The only way to get over grief is to go through it."
Unknown
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The wound is where the light enters you."
Rumi
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
Charles Spurgeon
"Grief is the price we pay for love. It is also a testament to how deeply someone touched our lives."
Unknown
"All grief is the same in the sense that it is a process of acknowledging and working through what we have lost."
David Kessler
"You can't get rid of grief, but you can make room for it in your life."
Unknown
"The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love. It’s what makes us human."
Unknown
"The greatest sorrow is to remember happiness in the day of sorrow."
William Shakespeare
"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."
John Green
"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief is the blunder of a life."
Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no expiration date on grief."
Unknown
"Grief can be a journey, but it’s a journey worth taking."
Unknown
"In the end, grief is not the enemy, it is the conversation we should be having about love."
Unknown
"Grief is the most private thing a person can experience, and still feel the weight of the world around them."
Unknown
"When we lose a loved one here on earth, we gain an angel in heaven."
Unknown
"You will eventually come to treasure the memories of those you have lost."
Unknown
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."
Washington Irving
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