Grief Quotes

Comforting grief quotes to help process loss and find healing during difficult times of mourning.

21 quotes
Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.
Unknown
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 is love with no place to go.
Jamie Anderson
The only cure for grief is to grieve.
Earl Grollman
Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot.
Unknown
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
Rumi
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing.
Vicki Harrison
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested.
Samuel Johnson
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
The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love; it is perhaps the price we pay for love.
Colin Murray Parkes
Don't feel guilty if you're having fun without me. This is exactly what I want for you.
Unknown
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.
Unknown
Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.
Jack Thorne
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity.
Earl Grollman