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Grief Quotes

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.

Washington Irving

The only way to deal with grief is to grieve.

Unknown

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Joni Mitchell

What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.

Helen Keller

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

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare

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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

John Green

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, the cost of commitment.

Dr. Colin Murray Parkes

Grief, like time, changes everything.

Unknown

Grief, like a wave, returns again and again.

Unknown

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grief is the price of love.

Unknown

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Keanu Reeves

There is no right way to grieve.

Unknown

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Irish Proverb

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Joan Didion

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.

Unknown

There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.

Unknown

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

José N. Harris

Grief is not a disease but a natural response to loss.

Unknown

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor.

Unknown

Grief, like a tree, has to be nurtured to grow.

Unknown

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Grief is just love with no place to go.

Jamie Anderson

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Sarah Dessen

You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Grief does not diminish; it stays with you always. It simply becomes a part of who you are.

Unknown

Grief never ends... but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay.

Unknown

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming.

Vicki Harrison

You don’t get over it, you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t ‘get better’; it just gets different.

Wendy Feireisen

Grief is a powerful and necessary teacher, it tells us what we need to live without.

Unknown

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C.S. Lewis

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

Grief is itself a medicine.

William Cowper

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

The reality is that you will grieve forever.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.

Unknown

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton

Grief is not the absence of love but the evidence of it.

Unknown

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

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 deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Sorrow comes in great waves... but it rolls over us, and though it may smother, it passes and we remain.

Henry James

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

C.S. Lewis

Grief is the last act of love we give to those we loved.

Unknown

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Earl Grollman

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 doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Ann Hood

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot.

Jamie Anderson

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief is the most terrible of all emotions, but it also is the most clarifying.

Unknown

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

Unknown

Grief is a moving river, always changing.

Unknown

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Veronica Roth

Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grief is not something you complete, but rather, you endure.

Unknown

Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved.

Unknown

Grief is like a moving river, it’s always changing. I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Michelle Williams