Grieving Quotes
594 quotes by 453 authors
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If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
— Horace
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
— C.S. Lewis
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I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for…
— Julian of Norwich
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
— Henri Nouwen
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
— Henri Nouwen
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Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?
— May Sarton
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
— William Shakespeare
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In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon…
— Charles Wesley
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At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.
— James Van Praagh
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I know that The Other Side, and the spirits who live there, are as real as this earth we live on, and that the only…
— Sylvia Browne
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I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal…
— Sylvia Browne
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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
— Mother Teresa
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Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked…
— Robert Browning
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You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
— Nigella Lawson
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There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words…
— Victoria Alexander
Who Wrote These Grieving Quotes
453 authors contributed a total of 594 Grieving Quotes, led by these top contributors: