Grieving Quotes

594 quotes by 453 authors

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not… — Joshua L. Liebman
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they… — Og Mandino
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. — Joan Rivers
Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit. — Morgan Llywelyn
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round… — William Carlos Williams
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may… — Joan Didion
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it. — John Keats
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their… — James Martineau
I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better. — Joan Rivers
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. — Robert Frost
Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. — John Green
Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no… — Susan Jacoby
Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness — Meister Eckhart
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. — Horace
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings… — Richard Crashaw
You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here. — Sarah McLachlan
I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not… — James Taylor
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. — Rabindranath Tagore

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