Quotes About Grief
Grief is an arduous journey to navigate. It's not something that one can prepare for. The loss of a loved one is not ever easy to deal with and accept. We have to keep going one step in front of another. Slow, but sure. I hope the quotes below may ease your suffering a tiny bit.
"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
"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
"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you'll learn to live with it. You will heal, and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to." — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be." — Nigella Lawson
"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
"Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day... unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear." — Unknown
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?" — Carson McCullers
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains." — Henri Mattise
"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them." — James O'Barr
"Tears are the silent language of grief." — Voltaire
"Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human."-Sarah Dessen
"The song is ended but the melody lingers on."-Irving Berlin
"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly — that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp."- Anne Lamott
"When I think of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a day will dawn when I no longer be among those living in this valley of strange humors.
I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else.
I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country to no return.
Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake.
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'"
- Maya Angelou
"Ain't no shame in holding on to grief... as long as you make room for other things too."
~ "Bubbles," The Wire
