Grief is like living two lives


While words can never fully express how much someone means to you, language can still provide comfort, solace, hope, and even inspiration following the death of a loved one. Here, you will find a collection of insightful quotes about grief and loss to help you and others through difficult times

1. ”I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”- Anne Frank

2. ”We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” – J. W.

3. ”To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell

4. ”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

5. ”What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

6. ”When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Anonymous

7. ”Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” – Paulo Coelho

8. ”Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given.” – Kay Redfield Jamison

9. ”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.”- Samuel Johnson

10. ”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. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” – Maya Angelou

11. ”Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.” – Marcus Aurelius

12. ”If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” – Santosh Kalwar

13. ”Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

14. ”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

15. ”We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

16. ”The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

17. ”I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” – Alyson Noel

 

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