Grief Quotes
Grief is a strong feeling that everyone goes through at some point. It can feel overwhelming and lonely, but it shows the love and connections we had. In this article, we’ve collected grief quotes to give comfort and reflection. These quotes from different authors and thinkers capture the pain and sadness of loss. Whether you’re grieving or supporting someone who is, these words can offer understanding and peace.
Grief Quotes
1. Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
– John Green
2. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
– Khalil Gibran
3. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
– J.K. Rowling
5. There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a 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
6. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
– Helen Keller
7. To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
– William Shakespeare
8. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
– Kenji Miyazawa
9. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
– Jose N. Harris
10. The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
– Criss Jami
Grief Quotes
11. 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
12. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
– Anne Roiphe
13. We need never be ashamed of our tears.
– Charles Dickens
14. Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
– Veronica Roth
15. Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.
– Unknown
16. Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
– Marcus Aurelius
17. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
– Rob Liano
19. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius
20. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
– Rumi
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