Reflecting on quotes from other authors may help if you have lost a loved one. In this article, we share our favorite quotes about overcoming grief. “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”.
Powerful Grief Quotes
Never. We never truly lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.
Grief only exists where love lived first. Franchesca cox
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
Grief is the price that we pay for love
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward patti Davis
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in times of sorrow. Robert louis stevenson
Be the things you love most about the people who are gone.
Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it’s overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. 535
The grieving do not just experience the loss of their loved one. They in some sense lose themselves. They lose security, trust, and hope for the future. A person is forever changed after experiencing a loss. -Unknown
Beautiful quotes about death
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure., Loving sympathy
The irony of grief is that the person you need to talk to about how you feel is the person who is no longer there. -Anonymous-
We try to guess the pain of others. And we judge our pain against what we think is normal. But ultimately, what is normal when many hide their grief after the expiry date? Or don’t show it at all because it doesn’t fit the criteria? Riri
When someone we love dies, the hardest part is not letting go of whom we have lost, it’s finding the strength and courage to move forward without them.
“When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know”
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.
“Grief is the price we pay for love” Queen Elizabeth ii
Quotes for people who have lost a loved one
“Grief is a curious thing when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.” — Jodi Picou
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” — Pierre Auguste Renoir
“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown
“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” — Sarah Dessen
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Winnie The Pooh” — Winnie The Pooh
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” — Pablo Neruda
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.” — Irving Berlin
Poems about losing a loved one
“Grief can destroy you — or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.” — Dean Koontz
Memories… Let them fill your mind, warm your heart, and lead you through. ~ Unknown~
They say there is a reason they say there is a reason, they say that time will heal, but neither time nor reason, will change the way I feel, for no one knows the heartache, that lies behind our smiles, no one knows how many times, we have broken down and cried, we want to tell you something so there won’t be any doubt, you’re so wonderful to think of, but so hard to be without. -Author unknown
“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.” – Elisabeth kübler-ross
“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.” – Elisabeth kübler-ross
Your absence walks through the door every single day. Helen Lyon
Death ends a life, not a relationship -match Albom
May there be comfort in knowing that someone so special will never be forgotten? Julie Hebert –
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days…” The fault in our stars
People rush to get rid of grief because they see it as hanging onto loss. But grief is hanging onto which is why you always feel it. Riri
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us. -Helen Keller’s
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. Ames Patterson
