Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From a headstone in Ireland
Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don’t recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into your life and channel your emotional energy toward others, and eventually, your grief will walk beside you instead of consuming you.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. – William Shakespeare
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – Jewish Proverb
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi
Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. – Andrew Solomon
Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. – George Eliot
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. – Veronica Roth
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing. – Rosamund Lupton
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. – Sophocles
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. – Sarah Dessen
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. – Erich Fromm
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief. – Emily Giffin
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry. – Charles Bukowski
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. – James Russell Lowell
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. – Cassandra Clare
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C.S. Lewis
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
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. – Christian Nevell Bovee
Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson
Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm. – Patricia Cornwell
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. – Alice Hoffman
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. – Sophocles
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. – J.R.R. Tolkien
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. – John Green
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief? – Sophocles
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
If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it. – Dee Henderson
Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.
Time is a physician that heals every grief. – Diphilus
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. – Terri Guillemets
In life there is no time to grieve long. – T.S. Eliot
Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran
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