Grief, Bereavement Quotes (83) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss.
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“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
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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
~ Rumi
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“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
~ Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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“Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”
~ Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival
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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
~ Washington Irving
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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
~ Marcel Proust
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“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
~ Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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“Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”
~ Jennifer Armintrout
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“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
~ Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass
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“It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.”
~ Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
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“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
~ Roland Barthes
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“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
~ Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”
~ Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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Time is a physician that heals every grief.
~ Diphilus
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Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal
~ Author Unknown
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
~ Sivananda
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
~ Pliny the Elder
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
~ Anne Grant
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Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
~ Michelle Williams
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
~ James Martineau
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
~ Robert Fulghum
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
~ Moliere
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
~ Pierre Corneille
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
~ Voltaire
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
~ Henri Nouwen
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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 are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
~ Washington Irving
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
~ Terri Guillemets
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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
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God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
~ James M. Barrie
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
~ Laurence Binyon
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Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
~ William Blake
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Grief should be the instructor of the wise. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest.
~ Lord Byron
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
~ Thomas Campbell
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss. The only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
~ Caleb Carr
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~ Cicero
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Grief is itself a medicine.
~ William Cowper
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Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
~ Emily Dickenson
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Time is the physician that heals every grief.
~ Diphilus
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It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
~ Meister Eckhart
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
~ George Eliot
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
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Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.
~ Chuck T. Falcon
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~ Jean De La Fontaine
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
~ Debbie Ford
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
~ Robert Frost
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Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility; for his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, and the cup he brings, though it burn your lips has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elequently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.
~ Washington Irving
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Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~ Henry W. Longfellow
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No one is exempt from grief.
~ Gregory Magiure
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A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
~ Thomas Mann
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
~ Hannah More
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
~ William Penn
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To bury grief, plant a seed.
~ German proverb
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Those whom we loved never really leave us. They live on forever in our hearts, and cast their radiant light onto our every shadow.
~ Sylvana Rossetti
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
~ Rumi
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Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
~ Rita Schiano
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Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
~ David Searls
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
~ Dr. Seuss
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Grief makes one hour ten.
~ William Shakespeare
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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
~ William Shakespeare
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy…Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion…without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.
~ George Vallant
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
~ Thornton Wilder
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Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.
~ Fritz William
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If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together…there is something you must remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart…I'll always be with you.
~ Winnie the Pooh
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Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
~ William Wordsworth
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