Grief Quotes Celebrating The Life of Someone Who Passed Away
This collection of grief quotes will heal your heart while strengthening you.
March 15, 2023 6:00 AM EST
Despite being a universal part of our human experience, death, especially that of someone we love, can leave us feeling devastated.
Anyone faced with great loss feels as if a part of them has been torn away.
After someone passes away, those left behind are tasked with carrying on their lives.
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According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, 55% of Americans find comfort in hearing from friends and family after a loved one has passed away.
This highlights the importance of reaching out to grieving friends with supportive messages, including grief quotes.
But for us to go on with our lives, we need to let go of those we love who are no longer with us.
Grief is that process that helps us gradually accept the loss and allow the dead to be gone from our lives but always remembered.
Because although a loved one may be gone, you can keep their memory and legacy alive by celebrating their life.
You can honor the life and memory of the deceased in many different ways, including keeping something of theirs with you, supporting a cause close to their heart, making a tribute donation to a nonprofit, dedicating an event to their memory, sharing their stories and photos, and living your best life.
To help commemorate and remember the deceased, below is our collection of inspirational and uplifting grief quotes, grief sayings, and grief proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.
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Grief quotes celebrating the life of someone who passed away
Research by psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman has shown that expressing sympathy and empathy towards others can boost our own well-being and resilience.
By sending condolences quotes to a friend in need, we can not only comfort them but also benefit our own mental health.
1. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
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2. “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.
3. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
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4. “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
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5. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
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6. “They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.” — WILLIAM PENN
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7. “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
8. “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
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9. “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
10. “When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi Epigram
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Grief quotes to bring healing and peace
A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that social support, including messages of condolences, can help reduce stress and anxiety in those experiencing grief.
By sending a heartfelt quote, we can provide a source of emotional support to our friends in mourning.
11. “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.” – Marcus Aurelius
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12. “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
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13. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
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14. “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
15. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
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16. “Grief is just love with no place to go.” — Jamie Anderson
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17. “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
18. “Wishing you strength for today and hope for tomorrow.” – Renee O’Neill
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19. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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20. “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling
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Grief quotes to help heal your heart and strengthen you
According to a study conducted by Harvard University, reading and sharing quotes on grief can help individuals process their emotions and find solace during difficult times.
This study found that 78% of participants reported a significant improvement in their emotional well-being after engaging with grief-related content that resonated with their experiences.
21. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — Winnie the Pooh
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22. “Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.” – Megan Devine
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23. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
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24. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
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25. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
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26. “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
27. “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
28. “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
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29. “Although it’s natural to forget your power after you lose a loved one, the truth is that after a breakup, divorce, or death, there remains an ability within you to create a new reality.” – Louise Hay and David Kessler
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30. “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” – Joni Mitchell
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Grief quotes to help commemorate and remember the deceased
In a study published in the Journal of Loss and Trauma, researchers discovered that engaging with grief quotes and stories from others can create a sense of connection and community, reducing feelings of isolation.
The study revealed that participants who felt connected to others through shared experiences of grief were better able to cope with their emotions and find healing.
31. “Grant but memory to us, and we lose nothing by death.” – John G. Whittier
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32. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” – Aeschylus
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33. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
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34. “Grief reunites you with what you’ve lost. It’s a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that’s going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him.” – Philip K. Dick
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35. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” – C.S. Lewis
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36. “Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and learning to live with that loss.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
37. “Love and grief come as a package deal. If you love, you will one day know sorrow.” – David Kessler
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38. “It is not the length of the life, but the depth of the life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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39. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
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40. “The only way to end grief was to go through it.” – Holly Black
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Grief quotes on coping and life after loss
Research conducted by psychologist Dr. Robert Neimeyer at the University of Memphis suggests that finding meaning in loss, such as through grief quotes, can promote personal growth and resilience.
Dr. Neimeyer’s research shows that individuals who can make sense of their loss and integrate it into their life story are more likely to experience positive long-term outcomes.
41. “Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.” – Megan Devine
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42. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
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43. “I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.” – Adrienne C. Moore
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44. “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis
45. “Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.” – Xenophon
46. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran
47. “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” – Marcel Proust
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48. “Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.” – Patti Smith
49. “Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.” – Albert Camus
50. “Loss can remind us that life itself is a gift.” – Louise Hay and David Kessler
Grief quotes to strengthen you
51. “When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn’t go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.”― Jude Watson
52. “Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it.”― Stephen Levine
53. “Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”― Elizabeth McCracken
54. “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”― V.C. Andrews
55. “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”― Gail Caldwell
56. “Ten years, she’s dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.”― Mary Karr
57. “Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner’s loss.”― Orson Scott Card
58. “Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”― Patti Callahan Henry
59. “Grief is the pain of wanting things to be as they were once, yet knowing that they never will be again.” – Julie Yarbrough
60. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
61. “For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.”― Lurlene McDaniel
62. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
63. “Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”― Sophocles
64. “The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”― Cormac McCarthy
65. “When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”― Rosamund Lupton
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66. “People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.” – Gail Sheehy
67. “Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.”― Munia Khan
68. “Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.” – Elizabeth Edwards
69. “Never compare your grief.
You – and only you
walk your path.”― Nathalie Himmelrich
70. “Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.” – Jacqueline Novogratz
71. “There’s always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you’d never stop grieving.”― Jonathan Tropper
72. “Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.” – Terri Irwin
73. “We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough
74. “Acknowledgment of grief – well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.” – Elizabeth McCracken
75. “Grief is like a wildflower, it can erupt from the ground anywhere it chooses, when it blossoms we must be careful not to step on it. Instead, we need to honor its existence and appreciate that love made it bloom.” – ZOË CLARK-COATES
Grief quotes to make you strong
76. “I don’t move away from grief, rather through it.” – Taya Kyle
77. “Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”― Hisham Matar
78. “Grief is bizarre territory because there’s no predicting how long it’ll take to get over certain things. You just don’t know how long it’s going to resound in your life.” – Sam Shepard
79. “People come and go from our lives all the time. It’s not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making room for new people with new lessons.”― Sue Fitzmaurice
80. “When grief is deepest, words are fewest.” – Ann Voskamp
81. “My mind couldn’t fit itself around the shape of his absence.”― Lia Mills
82. “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” – Nigella Lawson
83. “Loss is painful. It crushes hearts, steals dreams, and destroys relationships. Grief can be terribly lonely. Those who are grieving need us. They need you.” – Gary Roe
84. “The only cure for grief is action.” – George Henry Lewes
85. “Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself.”― Sanhita Baruah
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86. “I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
87. “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
88. “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
89. “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” — William Shakespeare
90. “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”― Haruki Murakami
91. “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” — Orson Scott Card
92. “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”― Nicholas Sparks
93. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine
94. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”― John Green
95. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” — Maya Angelou
Grief quotes to help deal with loss and pain
96. “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare
97. “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” – Veronica Roth
98. “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” ― Euripides
99. “Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.” – Andrew Solomon
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100. “Love is an engraved invitation to grief.” – Sunshine O’Donnell
101. “Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.” – Jodi Picoult
102. “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” – Sarah Dessen
103. “Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” – David Mitchell
104. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
105. “It’s not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief.” – Durgesh Satpathy
Other grief quotes and sayings
106. “Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”—MADELEINE L’ENGLE
107. “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
108. “Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories.”—RONALD REAGAN
109. “In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.”- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
110. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck
111. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
112. “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
113. “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 Picoult
114. “Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less…” – Arthur Golden
115. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” — J.K. Rowling
Grief quotes about acceptance
116. “You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart.” —NIKITA GILL
117. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” – Madeline Miller
118. “It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so overwhelming.” – Nicholas Sparks
119. “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” – Swami Sivananda
120. “Only a moment you stayed but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.”—DOROTHY FERGUSON
121. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
122. “The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.” – John Green
123. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
124. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” – Robert Fulghum
125. “There are some griefs so loud they could bring down the sky and there are griefs so still none knows how deep they lie.” – May Sarton
Grief Quotes To Help You Come To Terms With Loss Of A Friend
126. “To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses” – Syrus
127. “We can’t feel the loss of a friend until they are apart from us” – Debolina
128. “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies” – Gustave Flaubert
129. “Death ends a life, not a relationship” – Jack Lemmon
130. “Life without a friend is like death without a witness” – John Ray
131. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity” – Terri Guillemets
132. “The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired” – Robert Southey
133. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains” – Anne Frank
134. “Every deceased friend is a magnet drawing us into another world” – Eliza Cook
135. “When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken” – Chris Lumpkin
Short Grief Quotes To Encourage You To Get Over It
136. “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” — Keanu Reeves
137. “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” — William Faulkner
138. “Everyone can master grief but he has it.” — William Shakespeare
139. “Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.” ― George R.R. Martin
140. “If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold was less prized than grief.” — Sophocles
141. “Grief and love are conjoined—you don’t get one without the other.” — Jandy Nelson
142. “Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.” — Thomas Horn
143. “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
144. “There is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.” — Alice Walker
145. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” — Seneca
Grief Quotes To Help You Recover
146. “Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.” ― Roland Barthes
147. “Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.” ― Alison Bechdel
148. “Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.” ― Dana Fuller Ross
149. “Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.” ― Robin Hobb
150. “The grief that does not speak whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids it break.” ― William Shakespeare
151. “[Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.]” ― Lauren Groff
152. “I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn’t care how many years it’s been.” ― Sara Barnard
153. “[Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.]” ― Lauren Groff
154. “I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.” ― Judith McNaught
155. “…grief had no mercy, time limit, or expiration date.” ― Rebecca Yarros
Grief Quotes To Help You Process Your Emotions
156. “Grief is itself a medicine.” — William Cowper
157. “Our grief is as individual as our lives.” — Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
158. “No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.” ― Jojo Moyes
159. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” — Samuel Johnson
160. “Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” — Pema Chodron
161. “Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the hearts.” — John Adams
162.“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” — Mark Twain
163. “One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.” — Pierre Corneille
164. “Life Lesson 3: You can’t rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around — beds, pillows, arms, laps.” ― Patti Davis
165. “In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.” — Christopher Priest
Grief Quotes To Help you Let Go
166. “Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.” — Joan Chittister
167. “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
168. “Time takes away the grief of men.” — Desiderius Erasmus
169. “Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.” — Alphonse De Lamartine
170. “Grief is love not wanting to let go.” — Earl A. Grollman
171. “One of the most important things we can do for people who are grieving is to give them a safe place in which to experience and express their pain.” — J. Nelson
172. “Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.” — Benjamin Disraeli
173. “Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.” — Walker Percy
174. “Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.” — Jean De La Bruyere
175. “Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.” — Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Finding Comfort in the Face of Grief Quotes
176. “It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.” ― Chanakya
177. “Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” ― Seneca the Younger
178. “Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.” ― Samuel Johnson
179. “Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.” ― William Congreve
180. “Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others’ losses.” ― William Wycherley
181. “He who is resolute conquers grief.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
182. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” ― T. S. Eliot
183. “Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.” ― William Shakespeare
184. “It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
185. “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.” ― Joan Didion
Which of these grief quotes resonated with you best?
Though it can be particularly difficult if the individual was a family member or a close friend, grieving after a loss is healthy and completely necessary.
As long as we are mortal, death and grief happen.
And despite being a painful experience, grieving is a natural way for us to grow stronger and more resilient.
Hopefully, the above grief quotes will help you not only honor your loved one but also heal your heart and strengthen you.
Do you have any other uplifting grief quotes to add?
Let us know in the comment section below.
Lyn Stevens
January 10, 2023 at 8:52 AM
Thank you for these beautiful quotes. My grief is new and so strong. My favourite right now, “ Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” Euripides.
Danielle Dahl, Lead Contributor
January 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM
We are glad you found these grief quotes helpful. Grief is hard and we are sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing your favorite quote with us.
Ronald P Hulse
July 13, 2020 at 8:44 PM
My favorite quote is one I originated. ” YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK.” By Ronnie Paul H
Cathy
June 30, 2020 at 6:33 PM
Beautiful collection of quotes. I facilitate a bereavement group, and each night we start by lighting a candle and I read a quote that is applicable to the topic we are discussing. It’s our form of a simple meditation. Thank you for sharing these quotes. So many of them are absolutely perfect!
Sheri
February 11, 2020 at 12:48 AM
Thank you for the quotes and the valuable insight into dealing with grief. So many of the quotes ring true. It’s not easy to grieve but it is necessary when you have loved someone so much. Thank you for helping me put my feelings into words.