Memorable Quotes About Grief

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"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 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 honor the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity."
Terri Irwin
"Grief is the heaviest of weights, and the hardest to shake off. But it teaches us a lot about the value of life, of those we have lost, and of the time we have left."
Unknown
"Grief can destroy you -- or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it."
Dean Koontz
"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
"Grief and resilience live together."
Michelle Obama
"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
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"Although it's natural to forget the pain of grief, giving up the pain will arouse grief, making you a stronger person than before."
Unknown
"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in a way grieving the loss of your authentic self."
Kim Morrison
"Grief is the most solitary, most introspective journey, perhaps the most terrifying, because you face yourself and your own absence."
Unknown
"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 that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."
Unknown
"Grief does not change you... It reveals you."
John Green
"Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Grief is just love with no place to go."
Jamie Anderson
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Grief is the agony when we try to understand our memories instead of trying to live them."
Unknown
"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
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
Khalil Gibran
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship teaches us that there is no love without loss, and no loss without love."
Jessa Crispin
"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
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"Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love."
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. 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
"Grief... happens upon you, it’s bigger than you. There is a bravery in being outmatched by it. You’re not a failure, you’re just human."
Yann Martel
"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
"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
"Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."
José N. Harris
"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Grief is love's unwillingness to let go."
Unknown
"Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you fully human."
Sarah Dessen
"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
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming."
Vicki Harrison
"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."
Jamie Anderson
"One often learns more from 10 days of agony than from 10 years of contentment."
Merle Shain
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"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."
John Green
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates."
Samuel Johnson
"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 is simply love in its most wild and painful form."
Meghan O'Rourke
"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start."
Shel Silverstein
"Grief is like the aftermath of a storm; it blows through your life and leaves everything in shambles. But out of that chaos comes new possibilities, new growth."
Richard Paul Evans
"The only way to end grief was to go through it."
Holly Black
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
Kenji Miyazawa
"Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people."
Thomas Horn
"Grief can destroy you or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it."
Betty Smith
"It is a grief to lose a friend, but it is a greater grief to cut off a friendship."
William Hazlitt
"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
Veronica Roth
"The magnitude of our love is reflected in the depth of our grief."
Rosanne Cash
"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 Kübler-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
"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
"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
"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 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."
Linda Shanti
"Grief is a process, not a state. It changes, it doesn't disappear. It becomes a part of you, step by step, moment by moment."
Unknown
"Grief and love are forever intertwined; they are the yin and yang of the human experience."
Unknown
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Grief is a tempest: but it can also be the harbinger of peace."
Angie Weiland Crosby
"Grief is itself a medicine."
William Cowper
"Grief is the deposit of awful travels in our lives."
Sophocles
"Grief is the anger of love."
Pascal
"Grief is a journey that sooner or later we all must take."
George Anderson
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
Marcus Aurelius
"Grief dares us to love once more, to dance once more, to live once more."
Unknown
"Grief is a hole in the heart that never heals."
Unknown
"Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that.' It's a lifelong process."
Michelle Obama
"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 Kubler-Ross
"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."
Unknown
"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
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Queen Elizabeth II
"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."
Elizabeth Edwards
"Grief can destroy you, or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it."
Betty Smith
"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
"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."
Unknown
"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 can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."
Sarah Dessen
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
Aeschylus
"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
"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
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Grief is the price we pay for experiencing love."
Dr. Colin Murray Parkes
"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be."
Joan Didion
"Grief is the most solitary experience in the world."
Oliver Cotton
"Although it's natural to feel self-pity, don't make the mistake of thinking it's the most important thing, or letting it drag on too long. Self-pity, no matter how well-intentioned, is a useless emotion because it lacks any good outcome."
Anonymous
"Grief is love with no place to go."
Jamie Anderson
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
William Shakespeare
"Grief is a freight train through my living room. It's so big, I can't get out of its way. It will run me over every time I'm in its path, and every time, I'm gutted."
Franchesca Ramsey
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Grief is like the aftermath of a tsunami. It hits you in waves, sometimes stronger than others, but never really goes away."
Unknown
"To mourn is to be visibly moved. Grief is to be moved, but not visibly."
Anne Lamott
"You don’t get over it, you get through it."
Alice Hoffman
"Grief can be a doorway to awakening."
Stephen Jenkinson
"No one tells you that you will feel like a stranger in your own life."
Emily Rapp
"Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith… It is the price of love."
Author Unknown
"The only cure for grief is to grieve."
Earl Grollman
"Our grief is as deep as our love."
Author Unknown
"The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."
Thornton Wilder
"When you lose someone, you gain an angel you know."
Author Unknown
"Tears are the silent language of grief."
Voltaire
"In the end, grief is a door that opens into a room of love."
Michael Wilks
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in past times."
Dante Alighieri
"Grief is the most powerful teacher, but it is also the most painful."
James Van Praagh
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi
"The best thing you can do is to let people know that you love them while you have the chance."
Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider
"The loss of a child is a grief that cannot be compared to anything."
Author Unknown
"Grief can take care if it is shared."
Jean Vanier
"Life is a long process of getting used to things we didn’t expect."
Author Unknown
"In grief, nothing is clearer than the dream of how it could have been."
Robert R. McCammon
"Sometimes, grief is the price we pay for loved ones."
Marilynne Robinson
"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."
C.S. Lewis
"Grief can be a journey, it can be a healing, it can be life-changing, and it can be a rediscovery of what is important."
Robert Anderson
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