Grief is a deeply personal journey, and finding the right words to comfort those who are grieving can be challenging.
Whether you're seeking solace for yourself or comforting a loved one, these carefully curated grief quotes offer both comfort and insight.
Here are 24 perfect grief quotes to help you or someone you care about navigate the difficult path of loss.
What Are Some Comforting Grief Quotes for Someone Grieving?
When words fail, a well-chosen quote can provide comfort. These grief quotes are perfect for offering support during the darkest days.
“Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.”
― Cheryl Strayed
"If you have a thousand tears to cry, you can't stop at 500" ― Unknown
“The time will come when memory will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes.” ― David Kessler
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis
What are some beautiful grief quotes?
"I'll endure a lifetime of missing you for the joy at having loved you."
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: To love what is mortal; To hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, To let it go.” -Mary Oliver
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
What is a quote about being strong in grief?
- "The only cure for grief is to grieve." – Earl Grollman
- "We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world—the company of those who have known suffering." – Helen Keller
- "Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life." – Anne Roiphe
What are some wise grief quotes?
"You do not have to be strong; you do not have to be heroic. You only have to endure." – Megan Devine
"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you." – John Green
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!" – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Short grief quotes
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." – Thomas Campbell
"Grief is the price we pay for love." – Queen Elizabeth II
Famous Grief quotes for loved ones
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break." – William Shakespeare
“No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it.”
― Haruki Murakami
Healing grief quotes
“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
Missing you grief quotes
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Short grief quotes for loved ones
“We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”
― Paulo Coelho
"Those we love never truly leave us... There are things that death cannot touch." – J.K. Rowling
Grief quotes for a friend
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
