50 Grief Quotes To Heal Your Broken Heart
Looking for the best grief quotes? These 50 epic quotes about grief will teach you how to heal your broken heart.
Hey my friend,
Let’s chat about grief quotes.
The following quotes about grief will instantly warm your broken heart.
These grief quotes will also make you realise that grief is a totally normal emotion to feel.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, gentle grief quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 grief quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
GRIEF QUOTES
1 – Grief is itself a medicine. William Cowper
2 – Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire
3 – Tears water our growth. William Shakespeare
4 – We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest.
The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. Dean Koontz
5 – To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell
6 – No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. C.S Lewis
7- There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard. Victoria Alexander
8 – 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 Kootz
9 – There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10 – When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
GRIEF QUOTES
11 – Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. Jodi Piccoult
12 – The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Pierre Auguste Renoir
13 – Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. Paulo Coelho
14 – 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
15 – Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. Leo Tolstoy
16 – Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia
17- 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
18 – I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground.
To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk round it. Rachel Joyce
19 – It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
20 – You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss. Mandy Hale
GRIEF QUOTES
21 – 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
22 – Grief changes shape, but it never ends. Keanu Reeves
23 – You’ll get over it.’ It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes.
How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” Jeanette Winterson
24 – When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. Pat Schweibert
25 -The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll 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
26 – Grief is love turned into an eternal missing. Rosamund Lupton
27- 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
28 – You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you will 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
29 – Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. Katherine Owen
30 – When it is darkest, we can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
GRIEF QUOTES
31 – If tears could build a stairway,and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
32 – Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
33 – I am because you were.
34 – People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever. Fern Bork
35 – And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. Maya Angelou
36 – It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same. Katie McGarry
37- The song is ended but the melody lingers on. Irving Berlin
38 – You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things.
There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more.
And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death. Laurell K. Hamilton
39 – Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. Mitch Albom
40 – The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero
GRIEF QUOTES
41 – When someone you love dies and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.
Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
42 – Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop. Dodinsky
43 – I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. J.R.R. Tolkien
44 – Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss
45 – Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone. Rodgers and Hammerstein
46 – Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. Jose N. Harris
47- We do not have to rely on memories to recapture the spirit of those we have loved and lost – they live within our souls in some perfect sanctuary which even death cannot destroy. Nan Witcomb
48 – Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine
49 – The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
50 – God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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