100 Inspirational Quotes To Help Cope With Grief And Loss

1. "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
2. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
3. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” –Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. “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
5. “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
6. "Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it breaks.” –William Shakespeare
7. “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, and one day we wonder what has become of it.” –Arthur Golden
8. "I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss." –Rita Mae Brown
9. "We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. –Joan Didion
10. "Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” –Pablo Neruda
11. “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” –Emily Giffin
12. “Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.” –Mark Twain
13. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14. “Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.” –Seneca
15. “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
16. "Grief is just love with no place to go." –Jamie Anderson
17. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.” –Anne Frank
18. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” –Helen Keller
19. “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
20. “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. “Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.” –Sarah Dessen
22. “Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.” –Unknown
23. “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
24. "When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure." –Unknown
25. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” –Queen Elizabeth II

26. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” –Pierre Auguste Renoir
27. “Tears are the silent language of grief.” –Voltaire
28. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” –Unknown
29. “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
30. “Grief is love turned into an eternal missing.” –Rosamund Lupton
31. "Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day... unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear." –Unknown
32. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” –Mahatma Gandhi
33. “When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” –Sufi
34. “Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones are sealed inside to comfort us.” –Brian Jacques
35. “Tenderly, may time heal your sorrow. Gently, may your friends ease your pain. Softly, may peace replace heartaches. And my warmest memories remain.” –Unknown
36. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” –Thomas Campbell
37. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” –Leonardo Da Vinci
38. “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
39. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” –Terri Guillemets
40. "In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams ... that is where you and I shall meet." –Lewis Carroll
41. "There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains." –Unknown
42. "When it is darkest, we can see the stars." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. "Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow." –Unknown
44. “Grief never ends but it changes. It’s a passage not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.” –Unknown
45. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." –J.M. Barrie
46. “The song is ended but the melody lingers on.” –Irving Berlin
47. “Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.” –Nick Cave
48. "Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief." –William Faulkner
49. “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
50. “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” –Joni Mitchell

51. “Pain is certain, suffering is optional.” –Buddha
52. “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” –Chinese Proverb
53. “Grief is itself a medicine.” –William Cowper
54. “Earth has no sorrows that heaven can’t heal.” –Thomas Moore
55. “I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. “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
57. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
58. “It is foolish to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” –General George S. Patton
59. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” –Dr. Seuss
60. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” –Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”
61. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” –A.A. Milne, “The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh”
62. “You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you have left behind in my home, in my head, in my heart.” –Nikita Gill
63. “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
64. “When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I’m tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.” –Barbara Delinsky
65. “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” –Terry Pratchett
66. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” –Unknown
67. “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
68. “The only cure for grief is action.” –George Henry Lewes
69. "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." –Marcus Tullius Cicero
70. “We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.” –Marcel Proust
71. “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” –Emily Dickinson
72. “Feel. Grieve. Just sit and let it all rip you apart. And then get up and keep breathing. One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You’re not okay but you’re alive.” –Jasinda Wilder
73. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” –Arthur Schopenhauer
74. “Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the hearts.” –John Adams
75. “Tears are very close to my eyes… Not for pain… no… I do not cry because of pain. I cry only because of beautiful things.” –Zakes Mda

76. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” –Jose N. Harris
77. "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
78. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” –Matthew 5:4
79. “The peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” –Philippians 4:7
80. “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
81. “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” –Marcel Proust
82. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” –Anne Roiphe
83. “During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.” –Rick Warren
84. “As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.” –Sam Harris
85. “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
86. “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
87. “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
88. “Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with and the memories are so slippery yet so rich.” –Mike Mills
89. “Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.” –Jacqueline Novogratz
90. “Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.” –Anne Grant
91. “Time takes away the grief of men.” –Desiderius Erasmus
92. “When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say “try” I really do mean try, because it's an effort.” –Marie Helvin
93. “For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.” –Karyn Kusama
94. “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” –Ranata Suzuki
95. "You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn't mean letting go." –Mary VanHaute
96. "Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way." –Anne Morrow Lindbergh
97. "Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop." –Dodinsky
98. "We get no choice. If we love, we grieve." –Thomas Lynch
99. "You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you 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
100. "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

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