46 Inspirational Quotes on Grief & Loss (HEALING)

Top 15 Most Inspiring Quotes About Grief (BEST)

“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.”
Jamie Anderson

Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love. — Grief is the last act of **love** we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.

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 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 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 — 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**

Grief is love with no place to go. It is the absence of presence, the hole left behind by the pain of loss. But it is also a reminder that love, once shared, never truly dies. — Grief is **love** with no place to go. It is the absence of presence, the hole left behind by the pain of loss. But it is also a reminder that love, once shared, never truly dies.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - Winnie the Pooh — How **lucky** I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – **Winnie the Pooh**

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 — 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**

“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”
Maya Angelou

If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again. — If tears could build a stairway, and **memories** a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.

When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure. — When someone you **love** becomes a **memory**, that memory becomes a treasure.

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 — 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**

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller — What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — **Helen Keller**

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy. - Eskimo legend — Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy. – **Eskimo legend**

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. — **Death** leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a **memory** no one can steal.

One day we will remember how lucky we were to have known their love, with wonder, not grief. - Elizabeth Postle — One day we will remember how **lucky** we were to have known their love, with wonder, not grief. – Elizabeth Postle

16 Wise Quotes on Grief to Comfort You During This Hard Time

“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.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief isonly a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. - Hillary Stanton Zunin — The risk of **love** is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief isonly a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. – Hillary Stanton Zunin

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust — **Happiness** is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. – **Marcel Proust**

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 — 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

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. - Alphonse de Lamartine — Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than **happiness** ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. – Alphonse de Lamartine

Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. - Sarah Dessen — Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. – Sarah Dessen

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. - Old Chinese Proverb — You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. – **Old Chinese Proverb**

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. - Jewish Proverb — What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – **Jewish Proverb**

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss. - Mandy Hale — You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss. – **Mandy Hale**

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. - Pierre Auguste Renoir — The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre Auguste Renoir

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Jose N. Harris — Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. – Jose N. Harris

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 — 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

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross — Dying is nothing to **fear**. It can be the most wonderful experience of your **life**. It all depends on how you’ve lived. – Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone. - Rodgers and Hammerstein, 'Carousel' — Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone. – Rodgers and Hammerstein, ‘Carousel’

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God! — Fyodor Dostoevsky — The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God! — **Fyodor Dostoevsky**

5 Quotes About Grief and the Price of Love

Grief is not a sign of weakness; it is the price of love. - Dr. Colin Murray Parkes — Grief is not a sign of weakness; it is the price of **love**. – Dr. Colin Murray Parkes

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. — 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**.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. - William Faulkner — Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief. – **William Faulkner**

Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen Elizabeth II — Grief is the price we pay for **love**. – **Queen Elizabeth II**

Grief is the price we pay for the love we had. There's no escaping the sorrow, but there is light in the pain. — Grief is the price we pay for the love we had. There’s no escaping the sorrow, but there is light in the pain.

10 Deep Quotes About Grief that will Make You Think

“Grief is like the ocean; it’s deep, dark, and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night. Quiet. Persistent. Unfair. Diminished by time and faith and love, but never truly gone.”
Alessandra Torre

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 — 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**

Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external 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 — Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external 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**

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh — Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus — There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – **Aeschylus**

“Grief can destroy you — or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.”
Dean Koontz

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. - Marcus Tullius Cicero — The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – **Marcus Tullius Cicero**

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. - William Shakespeare — Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. – **William Shakespeare**

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis — No one ever told me that grief felt so like **fear**. — **C.S. Lewis**

“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”
Julie Burchill