Quotes on grief

“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.”

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. ”

“I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.”

“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.”

“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”

“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

“This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.”

“CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.”

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

“With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.”

“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”

“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”

“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

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

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

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

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 a part of us.

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.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

The only cure for grief is to grieve.

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

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

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

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

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief is the blunder of a life.

Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.

The hardest part of losing someone is knowing that you will never have them back.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief is a country you live in forever, even when you think you’ve left.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Grief is a journey, not a destination.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

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