Some quotes and sayings on grief
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
~Moliere
Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love.
~John Brantner
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
The hardest part of faith is the last hour.
~David Wilkerson
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~Author Unknown
The only cure for grief is action.
~George Henry Lewes
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
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
~Dan Rather
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
Time is a physician that heals every grief.
~Diphilus
It is light grief that can take counsel.
~Anonymous
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
~Euripides
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
~Sophocles
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
~From the television show The Wonder Years
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~Lou Reed
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
~Homer
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
~Jan Glidewell
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
Grief punts around joy.
~Jareb Teague
Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field. ~William Shakespeare
Those things that hurt, instruct.
~Benjamin Franklin
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
~The Talmud
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
There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. ~Author Unknown
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero