Grief Quotes and Messages

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

There’s always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you’d never stop grieving.

Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.

I don’t move away from grief, rather through it.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

My mind couldn’t fit itself around the shape of his absence.

You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

The only cure for grief is action.

I wish I had done everything on earth with you.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.

It’s not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories.

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.