Welcome to our page dedicated to Grief Quotes, a space where you can find solace, reflection, and inspiration in the words of others who have experienced the profound journey of grief. Grief is a universal human experience, a complex and deeply emotional response to loss that touches us all at some point in our lives. It can be comforting and healing to connect with the wisdom and empathy expressed by those who have walked this challenging path before us.
On this page, we have curated a collection of poignant and heartfelt quotes about grief. These quotes span the spectrum of emotions and perspectives surrounding loss, offering insights into the various stages of mourning, coping mechanisms, and the enduring power of love and memory. Whether you are seeking words to provide comfort in your own grief or searching for ways to express empathy and support for someone else, the quotes below will serve as a valuable resource. Feel free to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create a meaningful tribute or share your sentiments with others.
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
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. Keanu Reeves
I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak. Adrienne C. Moore
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. Victor Hugo
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache. John Bytheway
For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief. David Bowie
I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body… Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy’s controlling images – They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home. Jodie Evans
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief – the NHL still permits fights. Frank Deford
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell
My mom is my biggest support and critic. I’ve tried to be a good son, and I don’t think I’ve given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love. Tiger Shroff
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine
Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. Carrie Brownstein
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it’s the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don’t deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I’ve had to open up to grief in different contexts. Tori Amos
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. Lasse Hallstrom
Too many people I’ve loved dearly have left this earth. And some I’ve lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. Aunjanue Ellis
Time takes away the grief of men. Desiderius Erasmus
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. Anne Roiphe
I don’t move away from grief, rather through it. Taya Kyle
It’s very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it’s a kind of raging against what’s happening. Helen Garner
The only cure for grief is action. George Henry Lewes
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. Anton Chekhov
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
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. Patti Davis
Our best selves tell us that ‘there but for the grace of God… ‘ and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God’s grief and heart for us all. Greg Boyle
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. William Congreve
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief. Sophocles
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom. Rumi
Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can’t resist because all the great themes of human life – duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy – you find all those things within families. Khaled Hosseini
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Robert Frost
If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. Emma Thompson
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. John Millington Synge
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison
‘Hard Hit,’ a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents’ deaths to inform this journey. Ann Turner
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. Anne Grant
I do kabbalistic meditation. It’s not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost. Roseanne Barr
I think it’s too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles. Margo Jefferson
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in ‘Black Rainbow’ was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing ‘Mandy’ as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief. Panos Cosmatos
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. James Martineau
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. Emmylou Harris
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a ‘map’ for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Anne Grant
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
The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn’t live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end. Wendell Pierce
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. E. M. Forster
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. Moliere
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. Kevin Gates
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. Xenophon
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Khalil Gibran
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
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. Christopher Morley
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
Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals. Jason Reynolds
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it’s OK to have all the sadness. Ann Richards
Grief is a room without doors – but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Simon Van Booy
Grief is exhausting. When you learn – maybe through my age or experience – trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it’s really necessary and can arrive. Ciaran Hinds
People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It’s perfectly fine to say, ‘I actually don’t want to talk about my love because that’s not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.’ RuPaul
Do I get grief for the fact that in communicating, say, about the baboons I’m doing so much anthropomorphizing? One hopes that the parts that are blatantly ridiculous will be perceived as such. I’ve nonetheless been stunned by some of my more humorless colleagues – to see that they were not capable of recognizing that. Robert Sapolsky
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. Tryon Edwards
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers. Hozier
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given. Kay Redfield Jamison
Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion. Abby Johnson
It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief. Debbie Ford
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. Chanakya
You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don’t have one without the other. William Hurt
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
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
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. James Russell Lowell
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. Hesiod
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life. Chanakya
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person. Patti Smith
Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity. Terri Irwin
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go. Russell M. Nelson
When grief is deepest, words are fewest. Ann Voskamp
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero
As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death. Sam Harris
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I’ll support you with everything I’ve got. Chris Jordan
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. Horace
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson
Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
War isn’t just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It’s also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. Russell Crowe
Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society’s grief. Gulzar
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It’s like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. Meghan O’Rourke
Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn’t get any grief. Why me? Keeley Hazell
Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity. Jason Becker
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We’ve all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. Sissy Spacek
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. Erin Gray
Love has a cost, and it’s grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That’s the nature and price of life, right? But, when you love something deeply, then you’re courageous. Gail Bradbrook
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. Stephen Colbert
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. Elizabeth Edwards
I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship. Lemmy
No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. Franz Schubert
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. Franz Schubert
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Albert Camus
People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them. Gail Sheehy
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief – everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. F. Sionil Jose
