1. ”Grief reunites you with what you’ve lost. It’s a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that’s going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him.” ― Philip K. Dick
2. ”Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy
3. ”What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ― Helen Keller
4. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ― J.M. Barrie
5. ”Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.” ― Marcus Aurelius
6. “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” ― Orson Scott Card
7. ”I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
8. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” ― Maya Angelou
9. ”Grief is the price we pay for love.” ― Queen Elizabeth II
10. “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.” ― C.S. Lewis
11. ”How long will you grieve? How long will they be dead?” – David Kessler
12. ”I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”- Anne Frank
13. ”Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris
14. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” ― Winnie the Pooh
15. ”The only way to end grief was to go through it.” ― Holly Black
16. ”Although it’s natural to forget your power after you lose a loved one, the truth is that after a breakup, divorce, or death, there remains an ability within you to create a new reality.” ― Louise Hay and David Kessler
17. “Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope” — Elizabeth Gilbert
18. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy
19. “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering.” ― Helen Keller
20. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” ― Helen Keller
21. ”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.” ― Vicki Harrison
22. ”No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi
23. ”Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given.” ― Kay Redfield Jamison
24. “To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.” ― Erich Fromm
25. “I will not say: Do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
26. ”Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.” ― Megan Devine
27. ”To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell
28. ”If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” ― Santosh Kalwar
29. ”Grief I’ve learned is just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” ― Anonymous
30. ”Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” ― Anne Roiphe
31. ”Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.” ― Xenophon
32. ”When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” ― Anonymous
33. ”We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” ― J. W.
34. ”It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” ― Patti Davis
35. “There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.” ― Shel Silverstein
36. “While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” ― Samuel Johnson
37. “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.” ― V.C. Andrews
38. ”Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” ― Sarah Dessen
39. ”It’s OK to feel sad sometimes. Little by little, you’ll feel better again.” ― Anonymous
40. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine
41. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” ― William Shakespeare
42. “There is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.” ― Alice Walker
43. ”Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.” ― Patti Smith
44. ”I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.” ― Adrienne C. Moore
45. ”Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” ― Paulo Coelho
46. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell
47. ”To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling
