Grieving Quotes

594 quotes by 453 authors

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. — James Herriot
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. — Elbert Hubbard
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — William Ralph Inge
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They… — Washington Irving
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every… — Washington Irving
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. — Helen Keller
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse de Lamartine
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I… — Alphonsus Liguori
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. — James Russell Lowell
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. — Orison Swett Marden
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should… — George R. R. Martin
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. — Karl A. Menninger
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. — Mike Mills
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. — Moliere

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