Quotes to help grief
20 Best Grief Quotes - Inspirational Quotes to Help With Grief
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Sometimes, the wisdom of others who have been there before can help us see a glimmer of light.
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Grief comes in and out of our lives, in some shape or form, more than we would like in life. It’s hard to know how to navigate our feelings in the midst of such immense change, and it often can feel like you’re the only person experiencing what you're feeling. Maybe someone you love has just gotten a tough diagnosis and you’re wondering what the future looks like. Or you’ve lost someone close to you, whether it be by death or divorce or a painful disagreement, and you’re wondering how to move on. Grief looks different for everyone, but the silver lining is that you aren’t alone in the experience of it.
Whatever stage of the grieving process you're in, there are people all around you who’ve been through tough times too and have offered their own wisdoms to help you feel less alone. These grief quotes will allow you a space to feel solidarity with those who have grieved before you.
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John Green
"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
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C.S. Lewis
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
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J.K. Rowling
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Nicholas Sparks
“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
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Elizabeth Gilbert
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
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William Shakespeare
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
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Arthur Golden
“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.”
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Sarah Waters
"And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”
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Jodi Picoult
"Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
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Faraaz Kazi
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.”
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Joan Didion
"We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.
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Pablo Neruda
"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
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Emily Giffin
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
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Mark Twain
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
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Helen Keller
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
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Seneca
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
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Losing someone close to you — whether that's because of a death in the family, a divorce, or the ending of a friendship — is hard.
Along with the initial shock, it's a challenge when you have to go on and learn how to navigate the future without them by your side. And because the grieving process is different for everyone, it can often be lonely and isolating. That why we've rounded up powerful quotes about grief to help you put into words what you're feeling. You can use these messages as a reminder that you're not alone, or you can share them with someone who is experiencing a loss as a source of comfort.
Some of the sayings below are short and positive to help drive home that time can heal all wounds, even if right now it doesn't feel that way. Others are longer (like the ones from famous authors) and a bit solemn for the days when you just want to read something that relates to your sadness.
The most important thing to remember is that grieving is totally normal, but if you need help getting through the bereavement process, reach out to the National Alliance on Mental Illness for guidance at 800-950-6264.
Thomas Campbell
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“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face—I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
Jodi Picoult
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“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”
Winnie The Pooh
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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it.
You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
Pablo Neruda
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“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
Sarah Dessen
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“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”
Pierre Auguste Renoir
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“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
Jose N. Harris
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“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
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Irving Berlin
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“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.”
Maya Angelou
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“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”
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“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.”
Mandy Hale
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“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.”
Dean Koontz
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“Grief can destroy you — or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.
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Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer
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“At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.”
J.M. Barrie
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“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel
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“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.”
John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
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“You gave me a forever within the numbered days…”
Aeschylus
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“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
Anne Lamott
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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.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
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“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.”
Euripides
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“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
Ranata Suzuki
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“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
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109 philosophical and witty phrases about mountains (selection)
by Nikolai Drozdov Phrases, aphorisms, sayings of great and famous people about mountains
Mountains are one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. They are not similar to each other, differ in size and surface.
Mountains have always attracted special attention. Their majesty, scale and calm atmosphere that prevails around, forever remain in the memory of a person who was lucky enough to visit such amazing places at least once in his life.
The nature in the mountains is truly magical, and the air is crystal clear, which cannot leave anyone indifferent. Even sunset and sunrise look completely different here. Below is a list of phrases regarding these beautiful creations of nature.
Phrases and aphorisms about mountains. (Vladimir Belilovsky)
Their songs are repeated in all languages. (V. Hugo) 
.. (Natalya Turchaninova) 
(Yuri Moiseev) 
(Chinese proverb) 
.. If you fly up to the heavens, the fall is scary and painful, if you climb to the top of the mountain, there is a chance not to slide far... And we often take off from happiness … 
(Komatsu Tatsuji) 
(Gilles Courtmanche) 
(Dominic Webb) 
The mountain and the sky shone in heat, in a dizzying distance; and a reef raised by a mirage floated along a silver pond halfway to the sky ... (William Golding) 
(Jon Krakauer) 
What we have gained or lost lies down there. From the height of the mountain you see how vast the world is and how wide the horizons are. (Paulo Coelho) 
Without friendship, without friends, there is no climbing. Even the contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you (Yakov Arkin). 
It may seem strange, but I am talking to a mountain. I try to understand whether she is waiting for me or not, will let me in or not. (Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner)
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Quotes and aphorisms about mountains (statuses and sayings)
In life, a person feels like a hostage to haste and fuss. He constantly yearns for freedom and tries to find out if it exists at all. There is freedom, and it lives in the mountains. Mountains are the place where you can “soar in the clouds”, you can admire them ad infinitum. Many famous philosophers and writers were not indifferent to the mountains, they specially came to the mountain slopes and admired the indescribable landscapes, they inspired them to work.
Many people spend a lot of time wondering where is the best place to spend their holidays.
Most still prefer the sea coast, but in the end it turns out that after the rest you still have to rest. Oddly enough, but it turns out that way, because in seaside resorts there will be essentially the same fuss as in megacities, with the only difference being that the landscapes on the coast will be more beautiful and the climate cleaner. Whether it's a matter of the mountains ... Vacation in the mountains is an unforgettable time when you can enjoy true freedom and real beauty. Even in the most crowded mountain resorts, tourists do not interfere with each other and can really relax.
The mountains not only give a wonderful holiday, but also test human qualities. They test tourists for courage and endurance. Mountains teach you how to achieve your goals. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking at its top, it seems to a person that it is unrealistic to climb there, however, interest and perseverance help him to climb. Step by step, a person overcomes obstacles and conquers heights.
Climbing a mountain, like nothing else, inspires new exploits, gives confidence and charges you with self-confidence.
Quotes and Sayings
With enough determination, any idiot can climb this mountain,” Hall said. — But the trick is to get back down alive (Jon Krakauer).
To reach the goal in the mountains is not only to climb to the top, but also to go down.
Lies have no place in the mountains. The masks of deceit are shattered against their stone character.
Mountain air cleanses the body not only from various ailments, but also from lies.
No one forbids you to consider yourself the king of the mountain, but please know your mountain (Watari Wataru) .
Everyone should know their place in life.
Mountains are good. When you are here, everything bad remains below, and it becomes so easy on the soul.
If you want to get clean, go to the mountains.
The mountains are not a place where you can trust your life to others! This is the place where you can lose it!
In the mountains, human life belongs to nature and insurers.
The snowy mountains are beautiful. All the dirty and unpleasant things of the whole world are washed away by beautiful whiteness.
Snow-capped mountain peaks are the purest and brightest thing on earth, and it is not for nothing that they are closest to heaven.
In the mountains, there are special bonds between people. That's why I'm so irresistibly drawn to them (Bear Grylls) .
Strong and weak will unite in the mountains, they learn to help each other.
A man is looking for a man in the mountains. Friendship, joint struggle, the joy of the victory of the rational will of man over the blind forces of nature.
Without friendship, without friends, there is no climbing. Even the contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you (Yakov Arkin) .
The mountains are a great place to test friendship.
— You shouldn't spit against the wind in the mountains.
- Why?
- Get an icicle in the forehead!
Everything in life returns according to the boomerang law, the mountains can prove it.
Have you ever heard an avalanche in the mountains? Just after the avalanche rumbles, and there is absolute silence. You cease to understand where you are - it is one hundred percent. Just very quiet... (Haruki Murakami).
Mountain silence seems unrealistic compared to the noise of megacities, nevertheless, it exists.
Aphorisms
To find out if a mountain is high, it is not necessary to climb it.
There are many ways to learn something, it is not necessary to check every fact on your own.
Nature created mountains as a punishment to people when she wanted to humiliate them.
Those who do not want to be humiliated, they climb to the top of the mountain.
The mountains call those whose soul is the size of them.
Mountains are conquered by the strongest, cowards are simply afraid of them.
The man sitting on the top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.
All achievements are given only by one's own labor.
And the high mountains can't stop the clouds.
There are things in life that no one can change.
While smart people go around mountains, others turn them.
Everyone has their own ways to achieve goals, someone will go longer, but along the right path, and someone will not reach at all and along the short one.
Mountains build character, give Spartan upbringing and, of course, teach to understand people.
In the mountains, people often need help, so if you want to check someone, you have a direct road to the mountains.
The dream of the mountain is to fly;
Unrealizable flight,
But in the form of a cloud
Her dream floats.
All dreams have their expression.
The higher the mountain, the harder it is to go.
The last steps on the road to victory are always the hardest.
Love is like a rare flower that grows on the very top of a mountain and requires great courage to receive it.
Just as not everyone has the courage to get a flower from the top of a mountain, so not everyone has the courage to surrender to love.
Children should cry, but mothers should calm them down - not vice versa.
That is why mothers move mountains so that their children do not see their tears.
There is nothing worse than when a child sees his mother's tears, then he simply stops believing in happiness and goodness.
Statuses
If you love me, I can move mountains. And if not, then the neck.
When a person feels that he is loved, he is ready for any exploits, if he is unnecessary, then for any crimes ...)
Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.
In youth it seems that old age is still far away, in old age it seems that you have never lived, time has flown by so quickly.
I can move mountains because I know that you believe in me.
Faith in a person works wonders.
No matter how high the mountain is, any slope can become a path.
You can find a way out of any situation, if there is a desire.
Remember: you don't die in the mountains, you just don't live there.
You need to live not where it is beautiful, but where the conditions are suitable for life.
If men would turn all the mountains that they promised for the sake of women, our world would already be a continuous plain ...
Apparently, men do not want to destroy mountain beauties.. .
For mom with a mountain, for dad with a wall, for a friend with a brick, but for herself with herself!!!
If you value your loved ones, you are ready to stand up for them at any cost!
I woke up early in the morning and thought: I will get up and move mountains. Turned on the other side... Why invade nature, let them stand...
One could just admit one's laziness...)
Only mountains that you have never been to can be better than mountains.
