Grief and loss Quotes

Sorrow makes us all children again.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Grief is ever proud.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Why bad things happen to good people

— Harold S. Kushner

“We grow stronger together.”

— Ellen Krohne

“Grief is a sign of love.”

— Michael Reed

“Grief is a ghost that shows up uninvited.”

— Brittany Burgunder

When you are sorrowful, look again.

— Khalil Gibran

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

— William Shakespeare

“I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“Love is a bond that death cannot part. Gone from my arms, but still held in my heart.”

— John Mark Green

“He was both everything I could ever want… And nothing I could ever have…”

— Ranata Suzuki

“They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…”

— Ranata Suzuki

“Never compare your grief. You - and only you walk your path.”

— Nathalie Himmelrich

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

— Olivia Newton-John

“I try to do something positive – I socialise more… But deep down I know the truth. An entire world of people…

— Ranata Suzuki

“Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.”

— Donna Goddard

“I still think of you every day. But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it…

— Ranata Suzuki

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry…

— Rosanne Cash

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

— Stefan Kanfer

“It’s times like this…. when it’s over a year later and I’m still crying over you that I want to turn to…

— Ranata Suzuki

“An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in a way that you couldn't hide.”

— Brit Bennett

“Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Oh, to be the spitting image of her father, or a younger version of her mother. She longed to carry those pieces…

— Molly Collier

“For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the…

— Dean Koontz

“This state of grief was something I now understood. It's something that walks with you every day. Would there be sunny days…

— Pam K. McCarty

“Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run…

— Richard Paul Evans

“For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can…

— Homer

“And he had begun to feel then what he was feeling now: the complex and awful mental and physical interaction that is…

— Stephen King

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home,…

— Erin Gray

“Does time heal? It does. But the truth is, with the death of your own blood, part of you dies with them…

— Elena Levon

“We continued talking as my purchases were rung up—about the first Christmas, the sadness of ending up in a cemetery on a…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

“they may pontificate that the suicide attempt was merely a ploy to gain attention or to manipulate others. No matter what may…

— Valerie Porr M.A

“So the women would not forgive. Their passion remained intact, carefully guarded and nurtured by the bitter knowledge of all they had…

— Howard Bahr

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was…

— John Connolly

“No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you,…

— Jojo Moyes

“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart…

— Anna Seward

“In the process of decluttering things in my life, I was peeling off the layers of my past that no longer mattered…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“Isn't she doing this too? Connecting and disconnecting. Facing grief then turning from it. One minute she is caught up in minutiae.…

— Sarah Rayner