Top 45 Grief Quotes

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Getting over your grief can be very difficult. However, you don’t have to be alone. With that in mind, check out the top 45 grief quotes.

#45 – 40. Grief Quotes

45. What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

44. Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli

43. Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt

42. If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. – Winnie the Pooh

41. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. – William S. Burroughs

40. One often calms one’s grief by recounting it. – Pierre Corneille

#39 – 30. Grief Quotes

39. Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. – Jean De La Bruyere

38. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don’t deny it, don’t be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. – Harold Kushner

37. Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia

36. When it is darkest, we can see the stars. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

35. When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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

33. I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.- Anne Frank

32. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. – J.K. Rowling

31. We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love. – J. W.

30. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

#29 – 20. Grief Quotes

29. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. – Psalms 30:5

28. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – Winnie the Pooh

27. The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre Auguste Renoir

26. Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. – Proverb

25. It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one’s inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell

24. Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature‘s delight. – Marcus Aurelius

23. Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill

22. 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

21. If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile. – Santosh Kalwar

20. This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy. – Nicholas Sparks

#19 – 10. Grief Quotes

19. Grief is hard on friendships, but it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes, all it takes is a little honesty between friends. If we gently and lovingly explain what we need from the relationship during our time of grief, and what we are willing to do in return, we can turn even a lukewarm friendship into something special. – Margaret Brownley

18. 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

17. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.- Samuel Johnson

16. God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. – J.M. Barrie

15. Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

14. You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go. – Mary VanHaute

13. 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

12. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell

11. I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. – Alyson Noel

10. Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. – Jean De La Bruyere

#9 – 1. Grief Quotes

9. Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. – Matthew 5:4

8. Grief is light that is capable of counsel. – Proverb

7. Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given. – Kay Redfield Jamison

6. No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. – E. M. Cioran

5. Time takes away the grief of men. – Desiderius Erasmus

4. I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3. There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream. – Cyril Connolly

2. All things grow with time — except grief. – Yiddish Proverb

1. She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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