Grieving Inspirational Quotes

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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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

  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Masters

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  Andrew Sachs

  Life, Death, Adventure

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Grief

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
  but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
  and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Sad, Grief, Wrestling

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

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  Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• 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

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Death, Gratitude, Grief

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• Dreams are more powerful than facts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Dream, Powerful

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Healing, Grieving

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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