Grief is a powerful emotion that touches everyone at some point. It can feel overwhelming and isolating. Yet, shared wisdom and comforting words can help us feel less alone.
In this article, we bring together some of the most poignant quotes on grief. These words offer solace, understanding, and a sense of connection. Whether you’re grieving yourself or supporting someone who is, these quotes can provide a glimmer of hope.
Comforting Grief Quotes
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again, but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
“You give yourself permission to grieve by recognizing the need, not by waiting for it to go away. Grief is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be lived.”
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.”
“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
“What is grief, but love persevering?”
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.”
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
“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.”
“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.”
“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.”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
“Grief is itself a medicine.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”
“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.”
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“Grief is the gardener of compassion.”
Inspirational Quotes on Grief
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on…”
“Though sorrow may impede my heart, it is of great consolation to know that my love is eternal.”
“Grief is the garden of compassion.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.”
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.”
“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved.”
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted.”
“Grief, like a wave, has a rhythm of its own.”
“Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”
“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
“Grief is just the final act of love.”
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
“Grief is a journey that never truly ends.”
“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.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
“No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.”
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
“Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.”
Quotes on Grief from Renowned Authors
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Grief is the garden of compassion.”
“Grief, a feeling that we often push away, is a silent companion in the tapestry of life.”
“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.”
“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief is the blunder of a life.”
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
“Grief, like a river, ebbs and flows, but always carves its own path.”
“Grief is love’s shadow. If you are brave enough to love, you must be brave enough to grieve.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion to death.”
“Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow.”
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“Grief is the price we pay for having dared to love at all.”
“Grief is itself a medicine.”
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
“Grief, I have learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.”
“Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved.”
“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.”
“Grief is an ocean, and I am learning to navigate my way through its waves.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“In times of grief and sorrow, I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.”
Profound Grief Quotes from Movies
“You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.”
“I will find you, and I will kill you.”
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.”
“I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I’d never run out of women, never run out of friends, never run out of luck.”
“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.”
“The grief is still too near.”
“Grief is like a suitcase that sits at the bottom of your bed. Every day you open it, put it on like a coat, and take it off again before bedtime.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
“Life’s a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”
“To live would be an awfully big adventure.”
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Do, or do not. There is no try.”
“You can’t change your past, but you can let go and start your future.”
“When you lose someone you love, you’ll experience an avalanche of grief that buries you in its depths.”
“We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made. We can only affect the decisions we’re going to make from here.”
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices.”
“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.”
“You have to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.”
“Don’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
“It’s funny how we cling to the past, even when we’re dying to move on.”
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
“Grief, it swallows you whole. It’s what you do after that defines who you are.”
“Life has to end, love doesn’t.”
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
Quotes about Grief and Healing
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief, the blunder of a life.”
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.”
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“Grief is like living two lives. One is where you pretend everything is alright, and the other is where your heart silently screams in pain.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Grief is the garden of compassion.”
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Grief is love’s unwillingness to let go.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
“Grief is just love with no place to go.”
“Healing comes when we choose to walk away from darkness and move towards a brighter light.”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
“Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“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.”
Grief Quotes from Historical Figures
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
“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.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“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.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Grief whispers in the night and echoes through the day.”
“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.”
“Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”
“Grief is itself a medicine.”
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot…”
“Grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us, the mirrors how to reflect us, the walls how to contain us.”
“From the end spring new beginnings.”
Quotes about Grief and Loss
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“Sorrow is so woven through the fabric of our lives that it becomes indistinguishable from the joy of love.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot.”
“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, we will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
“Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world—the company of those who have known suffering.”
“Grief is love’s unwillingness to let go.”
“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.”
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.”
“Grief is the garden of compassion.”
“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.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“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.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”
“Grief is itself a medicine.”
“Grief is the rope that ties us to the roots of our soul.”
“Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“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.”
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
Uplifting Quotes in Times of Grief
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“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.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.”
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
“In times of grief and sorrow, I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”
“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.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.”
“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.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.”
“Grief, I have learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in the hollow part of your chest.”
“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.”
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.”
“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.”
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.”
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Deeply Emotional Grief Quotes
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal, and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.”
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
“Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
“Grief is the price we pay for having loved and having received love in return.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.”
“Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.”
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
“At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.”
“Nothing can ever take away the love a heart holds dear.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.”
“Grief is love’s unwillingness to let go.”
“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”
“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.”
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
“Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I do not die.”
The Bottom Line
Grief is a universal experience, touching everyone at some point. The quotes shared in this article aim to provide solace, understanding, and even a bit of wisdom during such tough times. They remind us that feeling grief is okay and that finding comfort in words can help ease the burden.
Whether you’re mourning a loss or supporting someone who is, these quotes can act as gentle companions. Let them bring you moments of peace and reflection, showing that while the pain is real, you are not alone.
