Powerful
Grief Quotes
Sometimes, the wise and lyrical words of others who have been here before, can help you put your own thoughts and feelings into perspective.
Grief
Quotes
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.”
– Shakespeare
“Tears are the words the heart can’t express”
– Author Unknown
“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
“And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
– Kahlil Gibran
“We understand death only after it has laid its hands on someone we love.”
– Anne L. de Stael
“Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.”
– Peter D. Kramer
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains”
– Pierre Auguste Renoir
“I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat”
– Maryellen Dennis
“I am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time”
– Author Unknown
“Remembering is an act of resurrection, each repetition a vital layer of mourning, in memory of those we are sure to meet again.”
– Nancy Cobb
“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 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 can 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
“There’s still a beat…but the music is gone. And you’re the only song my heart wants to hear.”
– Ranata Suzuki
“Grief is a nasty game of feeling the weakest you have ever felt and becoming the strongest person you will ever be.”
– Windgate Lane
“Hardships often prepare ordinary for an extraordinary destiny.”
– C.S. Lewis
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
– Jandy Nelson
“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
“Part of getting over it is knowing that you will never get over it.”
– Ann Finger
“When words are most empty, tears are most apt.”
– Max Lucado
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
“It’s hard to turn the page when you know someone won’t be in the next chapter, but the story must go on.”
– Thomas Wilder
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Funeral
Quotes
For some more inspiration, below is a selection of popular funeral quote categories you can have a look at.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, all come from earth, and to earth all return.
Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust,
all come from earth,
and to earth all return.