Grief Quotes

Grief quotes...messages on the power of grief to move you forward along the path of personal development.

Grief Quotes To Help You Through Hard Times

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of overcoming it.

--Helen Keller

You're surprised when you find out that you're going to make it…There is some kind of ability we all have that just shows up on our front porch.

--Anonymous

I would say to those who mourn…look upon each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Do not suppress it. Never attempt to hide grief.

--Daphne du Maurier

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

--Abraham Lincoln

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

--Marion Wright Edelman

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

--Barbara Kingsolver

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

--Confucius

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

--Mignon McLaughlin

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have--life itself.

--Walter Anderson

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 is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

--Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

--Cicero

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

--Christian Nevell Bovee

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

--Ovid

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

--Simone Weil

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tears are the silent language of grief.

--Voltaire

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

--Blaise Pascal

The only cure for grief is action.

--G.H. Lewes

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.

--Hilary Stanton Zunin

I hope these quotes on grief and quotes about grief helped you. ~Adam

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