Here are the top 99 quotes about grieving and loss:
1. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
2. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
3. “The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.” – Russell M. Nelson
4. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
5. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler
7. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
8. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
9. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
10. “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
11. “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
12. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
13. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
14. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
15. “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
16. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
17. “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
18. “The best way to remember someone it to do it with a smile on your face.” – Unknown
19. “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
20. “You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.” – Eva Ibbotson
21. “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson
22. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
23. “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.” – Nancy Stephan
24. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” – Anais Nin
26. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
27. “Perhaps they are not the 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
28. “The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
29. “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
30. “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
31. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
32. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
33. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
34. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
35. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
36. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
37. “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de Stael
38. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
39. “The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” – James Patterson
40. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
41. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
42. “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
43. “The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.” – Russell M. Nelson
44. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
45. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
46. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
47. “If there is a heaven, it’s certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.” – Pam Brown
48. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami
49. “The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” – James Patterson
51. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
52. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
53. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
