Grief Quotes:
50 Inspirational Quotes About Overcoming Grief

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love."

- Anonymous

"The only cure for grief is to grieve."

- Earl Grollman

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love."

- Anonymous

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

- John Green

"Grief, I've learned, is really 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."

- Jamie Anderson

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."

- Anne Roiphe

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

- Sarah Dessen

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

- Kenji Miyazawa

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"Grief never ends... But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith... It is the price of love."

- Anonymous

"You don't get over it, you just get through it. You don't get by it, because you can't get around it. It doesn't 'get better'; it just gets different. Every day... Grief puts on a new face."

- Wendy Feireisen

"Grief is just love with no place to go."

- Jamie Anderson

"It's not about getting over it; it's about learning to live with it."

- Anonymous

"Grief is love's unwillingness to let go."

- Anonymous

"Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end."

- Ann Hood

"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

"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Grief, after all, is the price we pay for love."

- Anonymous

"You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn't mean letting go."

- Mary VanHaute

"Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. Without love, there would be no grief."

- Thomas Lynch

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

- Sarah Williams

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

- Hilary Stanton Zunin

"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."

- C.S. Lewis

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams... that is where you and I shall meet."

- Lewis Carroll

"In times of grief and sorrow, I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry. And when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it."

- Arthur Golden

"Grief is the price we pay for having had the courage to love others."

- Anonymous

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

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

- Anonymous

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Grief is a wild and lonely place. You must walk the path, but you do not have to walk it alone."

- Anonymous

"Grief is the bitter price we pay for the joy of loving."

- Jennifer Worth

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"Grief is the heart's way of showing how much we loved someone who is no longer here."

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

"Grief is a way of moving through the darkest places while holding a lantern for the living."

- Anonymous

"Grief cannot be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"You don't get over a loss; you learn to live with it."

- Anonymous

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"When grief is deepest, words are fewest."

- Ann Voskamp

"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."

- Patti Smith

"Grief is the lingering shadow cast by love that refuses to fade."

- Anonymous