Grief Quotes

"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."

Hilary Stanton Zunin

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

Keanu Reeves

“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”

“How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle.”

“Shall I, that have destroyed my preservers, return home?”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“How strangely are human affairs conducted, that so many excellent qualities could not ensure a more happy fate!”

"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."

Euripides

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

Christina Rossetti

"Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep."

Mary Elizabeth Frye

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."

Washington Irving

"What's gone and what's past help should be past grief."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

Mitch Albom

"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room."

Henry Scott Holland

"I love my wife. My wife is dead."

Richard P. Feynman

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

Queen Elizabeth II

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

Sophocles

“I believe that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

Mitch Albom

“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

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

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

Joan Didion

“Grief is just love with no place to go.”

Jamie Anderson

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.”

Washington Irving