Grief Quotes

"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."

Earl Grollman

"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it."

Seneca

"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it."

Joan Didion

"Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule."

Elizabeth Gilbert

"Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried."

Megan Devine

"Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint."

David Kessler

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."

"The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them."

Francis Weller

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

Marcel Proust

"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Grief is what we think and feel on the inside when someone we love dies. Mourning is the outward expression of those thoughts and feelings."

Alan Wolfelt

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

Ovid

"Grief fills the room up of my absent child."

"Grief may be joy misunderstood."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

"Grief does not change you... It reveals you."

John Green

"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot."

Jamie Anderson

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Mark Twain

"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."

Arthur Golden

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can."

Alphonse de Lamartine

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering."

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!"