Some of our favorite grief quotes and sayings about 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
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
~Emily Dickinson
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
~ Marcel Proust
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Joseph Addison
It is light grief that can take counsel.
~Anonymous
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.
~Mark Twain
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it
~ Turkish Proverb
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
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the over-fraught heart, and bids it break.
~William Shakespeare
Grief makes one hour ten
~William Shakespeare
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.
~ Blaise Pascal
Time is a physician that heals every grief.
~Diphilus
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
Tears are the silent language of grief
~ Voltaire
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
~Horace
Grief punts around joy.
~Jareb Teague
Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field.
~William Shakespeare
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how
~ James Russell Lowell
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~William Penn
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
~Lord Byron
What’s gone and what’s past help should be past grief
~William Shakespeare
Compare your griefs with other men’s and they will seem less
~Spanish Proverb
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand
~ Friedrich von Schiller
One joy shatters a hundred griefs
~ Chinese Proverbs
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
Those things that hurt, instruct.
~Benjamin Franklin
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
~ Robert Frost
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
~Marcus Aurelius
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
~The Talmud
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
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
~ William Shakespeare
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
Grief is a species of idleness.
~Samuel Johnson
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.
~William Faulkner
Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
~Fran Drescher
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~Henry Maudsley
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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