Grief Quotes

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

— Queen Elizabeth II

"The reality is that you will grieve forever."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"No one ever told me grief felt so like fear."

— C.S. Lewis

"Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness."

— Earl Grollman

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose."

— Helen Keller

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow."

— Leo Tolstoy

"Grief is love with no place to go."

— Jamie Anderson

"You will lose someone you can't live without."

— John Green

"Tears are words the heart can't say."

— Gerard Way

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"What is grief if not love persevering?"

— Vision (WandaVision)

"Grief is the last act of love we have to give."

— Unknown

"Those we love don't go away. They walk beside us every day."

— Unknown

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

— Thomas Campbell

"The song is ended but the melody lingers on."

— Irving Berlin

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

— Mitch Albom

"Perhaps they are not stars, but openings in heaven."

— Inuit Proverb

"Where there is deep grief, there was great love."

— Unknown

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

— Unknown

"The ones who love us never really leave us."

— J.K. Rowling

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

— Emily Dickinson

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

— Walt Whitman

"You don't get over it. You get through it."

— Unknown

"The human heart has a way of making itself large again."

— Leon Wieseltier

"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead."

— Ian Fleming

"In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life: it goes on."

— Robert Frost

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

— Rumi

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

— J.K. Rowling

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

— Victor Hugo

"Courage is not having the strength to go on — it's going on when you don't have strength."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it."

— Erin Morgenstern

"Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

— Shakespeare

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others."

— Gaspard Mermillod

"The loss of a mother is always felt."

— Unknown

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a while but their hearts forever."

— Unknown

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness."

— Stevie Wonder

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

— Abraham Lincoln

"When you lose your mother, you lose your witness to your past."

— Unknown

"A mother's love lives forever in the hearts she has touched."

— Unknown

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

— Maya Angelou

"My father gave me the greatest gift: he believed in me."

— Jim Valvano

"When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back."

— Linda Poindexter

"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."

— Steve Martin

"The greatest thing a father can do is love their children."

— Unknown

"No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child."

— Abraham Lincoln

"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow."

— Unknown

"It's only when you grow up and step back from him that you can measure his greatness."

— Margaret Truman

"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."

— Beau Bridges

"The saddest word in the whole wide world is the word almost."

— Nikita Gill

"I didn't lose you. You didn't lose me. We just missed our chance to grow old together."

— Unknown

"Until we meet again, I will carry you in my heart."

— Unknown

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

— A.A. Milne

"The heart that loves is always young."

— Greek Proverb

"Grief is the final act of love."

— Unknown

"I can't imagine my life without you — so I carry you with me everywhere."

— Unknown

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

— Shakespeare (Sonnet 116)

"There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world."

— Unknown

"A child who has lost a parent is an orphan. There is no word for a parent who has lost a child."

— Unknown

"An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby's birth. Then whispered as she closed the book: too beautiful for earth."

— Unknown

"The loss of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine."

— American Academy of Pediatrics

"I held you every second of your life."

— Stephanie Paige Cole

"You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart."

— Unknown

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

— A.A. Milne

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

— Aristotle

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

— Dr. Seuss

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

— Woodrow Wilson

"There are friends, and there is family. And then there are friends that become family."

— Unknown

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

— Unknown

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."

— Seneca