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