Comforting Quotes For A Friend Who Is Grieving

When a friend is going through the pain of grieving, it can be difficult to know what to say or do to provide comfort. Sometimes, the simplest words can make all the difference. We’ve rounded up the top 99 comforting quotes for a friend who is grieving to help you express your sympathy and support.

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“The only way to get through grief is to go through it.” – Unknown
“Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.” – Unknown
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Unknown
“The pain of grief is just love with nowhere to go.” – Jamie Anderson
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
“Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.” – Unknown
“May your memories of your loved one comfort you during this difficult time.” – Unknown
“What is beautiful about the world of the dead is that it is in this world that the living are able to find the courage to live in.” – Unknown
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” – Madame de Stael
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will 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 be.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler
“When someone you love becomes a memory that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones are sealed inside to comfort us.” – Brian Jacques
“When a loved one becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
“No one ever truly leaves us. They live on in the kindness they showed, the comfort they shared, and the love they brought into our lives.” – Unknown
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Those we hold closest to our hearts never truly leave us. They live on in the kindness they have shared and the love they brought into our lives.” – Unknown
“Grief is like the aftermath of a storm; it leaves the world looking different, but also brings a sense of calm.” – Unknown
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – Winnie the Pooh
“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Unknown
“We may not know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.” – Unknown
“It’s not about how to get over it or how to forget it. It’s about how to accept it and live with it.” – Unknown
“The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.” – Unknown
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri
“The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” – Thornton Wilder
“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.” – Leo Buscaglia
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
“The memories and love you shared with your loved one will always be with you. Take comfort in knowing that they are at peace and that you will always carry a piece of them with you.” – Unknown
“Grief is a natural response to loss. It is the emotional suffering we feel when someone we love is taken away. The pain of grief is a reflection of the love we have for that person.” – Unknown
“Those we love will never truly leave us. They live on in the kindness they showed, the comfort they shared, and the love they brought into our lives.” – Unknown
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“If there is a single definition of healing, it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.” – Stephen Levine
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The pain of grief is just love with nowhere to go.” – Jamie Anderson
“Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water

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