Grief quotes will help you feel inspired and uplifted. We should not grief and find ways to overcome sadness. There will be many situations where you will feel grief and sadness throughout your life, in situations where you feel grief, it is best to make plans to over this feeling, keep yourself busy and occupied, and with patience and time, you will slowly start to feel normal again. Life teaches us many great lessons, and through experiences, we can learn to overcome grief.
50 Grief Quotes
- “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” Rumi
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
- “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
- “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Kahlil Gibran
- “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
- “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human” Sarah Dessen
- “Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it ’til it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” John Green
- “This is not the life you pictured but here you are. You can still make something beautiful. Grieve. Breathe. Begin again.” Thema Bryant-Davis
- “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
- “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” William Penn
- “Grief is itself a medicine.” William Cowper
- “When one person is missing the whole world seems empty” Pat Schweibert
- “Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Tears are the silent language of grief.” Voltaire
- “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” E. A. Bucchianeri
- “Grief is just love with no place to go.” Jamie Anderson
- “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” José N. Harris
- “Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.” Carl Jung
- “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” Kenji Miyazawa
- “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” Dylan Thomas
- “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever” A. Milne
- “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C. S. Lewis
- “When grief is deepest, words are fewest.” Ann Voskamp
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell
- “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
- “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite” Cassandra Clare
- “Relax. One bad chapter does not mean it’s the end of the book.” Paulo Coelho
- “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” Faraaz Kazi
- “Grief, I now understand, is a sort of madness, in the same way, that falling in love is madness.” Clover Stroud
- “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.” Hillary Stanton Zunin
- “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God” Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” Korean Proverb
- “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” Marcel Proust
- “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” William Shakespeare
- “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” Nigella Lawson
- “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
- “People just disappear sometimes. You have to love and appreciate them while they’re near you.” Haruki Murakami
- “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” Pierre Auguste Renoir
- “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.” C. S. Lewis
- “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” Keanu Reeves
- “Perhaps they are not the stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” Inuit Proverb
- “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
- “No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality, they only pass each other by.” Franz Schubert
- “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” Orson Scott Card
- “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” Emily Giffin
