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Grief Quotes: A Collection of Quotes About Loss and Death
During times of unbearable sadness and loss, we often seek the advice of others who have written about the same kind of experiences. This gives us the sense that we are not alone and isolated in our anguish. Congratulations, for this is good news! It means that you are moving closer to acceptance, and rejoining the ranks of the living again. It also means that you, like thousands of others just like you, can take that next step forward into the land of the living again with the gentle yet powerful Sedona Method. Give yourself the gift of letting go, and know that you are not alone, as the following quotes begin soothe your wearied soul:
Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love. --John Brantner
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. --Margaret Mead
Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field. --William Shakespeare
The hardest part of faith is the last hour. --David Wilkerson
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. --The Talmud
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. -- Psalm 34:18
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death --Robert Fulghum
My grief lies all within, and these external manners of lament are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul --William Shakespeare
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. --Dr Samuel Johnson
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. --Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. --Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
It is light grief that can take counsel. --Anonymous
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. --Euripides
The only cure for grief is action. --George Henry Lewes
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. --Homer
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. --Sophocles
Gently move through your grief, easier than you ever imagined. Living with heavy grief is not living at all. Lighten your burden, at long last. Give yourself the gift of peace of mind, and lightness of heart.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. --Sophocles
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. --William Shakespeare
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. --Marcel Proust
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. --Cicero
Tears are the silent language of grief. --Voltaire
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. --Henri Frederic Amiel
Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart. --John Adams
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. --Anna Quindlen
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 messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. --Washington Irving
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. --C.S. Lewis
Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived! --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. --Aeschylus
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
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. --Erich Fromm
One joy shatters a hundred griefs. --Chinese Proverb
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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
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. --Christian Nevell Bovee
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. --Turkish Proverb
Grief makes one hour ten. --William Shakespeare
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. --Moliere
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. --Ovid
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. --Ovid
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. --Anonymous
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. --Simone Weil
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. --Henry Ford
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. --Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. --David Searls
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. --John Taylor
A heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. --William Shakespeare
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. --Mason Cooley
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