100+ Comforting Grief Quotes to Soothe the Heart and Heal the Soul

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

“What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Everyone can resist sorrow except the sorrowful.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“To live means to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth.” – Lord Byron

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes your treasure.” – Unknown

“Grief is just love with nowhere to go.” – Jamie Anderson

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in our country—the company of the brokenhearted.” – Helen Keller

“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” – Akshay Dubey

“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” – William Wordsworth

“With time, the wound will scar, and you’ll be able to bear the weight of the memory.” – Mitch Albom

“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

“You don’t move on from grief; you move forward with it.” – Carol Staudacher

“It’s okay to feel broken. But don’t forget that broken things can still be beautiful.” – Unknown

“The sun will rise again, and so will we.” – Sanober Khan

“Pain passes, but memories last forever.” – Unknown

“One day, you’ll realize that the best days weren’t the ones with sunshine, but the ones that overcame the storm.” – Unknown

“After crying so much my pillow had sinkholes, I finally learned to sleep without tears.” – Dominic Riccitello

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell

“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

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – Kevin Arnold

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love never dies.” – William Shakespeare

“They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.” – Native American Proverb

“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again in the web of life.” – Maya Angelou

“Your absence is a wound that never heals, but your memory is a blessing that never fades.” – Unknown

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings

“Loving you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done, missing you is the hardest.” – Unknown

“You left footprints on my heart that I will carry forever.” – Unknown

“Grief is the garden of memory; tend it gently.” – Anonymous

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran

“Strength does not come from what you can do, but from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.” – Christine Caine

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“I didn’t lose my courage, I found my strength.” – Unknown

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Survival is not an art; survival is the act of refusing to die.” – Sebastien de Castell

“Grief changed me. Not ruined me. Changed me.” – Unknown

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“Those who believe in immortality will never truly say goodbye.” – Unknown

“The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes eternal.” – Unknown

“God gives us memory so that we might have roses in December.” – J.M. Barrie

“Souls are not divided by death; they remain connected beyond time and space.” – Unknown

“I am standing on the seashore. A ship sails on the horizon… And then, someone says, ‘There she goes!’ Gone from my sight—that is all.” – Henry Van Dyke

“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon.” – Rossiter W. Raymond

“The body dies, the soul lives on.” – Plato

“There is no such thing as death. In reality, there is only change.” – Lao Tzu

“Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beauty left behind.” – Amit Ray

“Grief: love with nowhere to go.” – Unknown

“Tears are words the heart can’t express.” – Unknown

“Missing you is my heart’s way of loving you still.” – Unknown

“Sadness is just a wall between two gardens.” – Khalil Gibran

“Silence speaks volumes in grief.” – Unknown

“Love doesn’t die, people do.” – Susan Hogan

“Not gone. Just ahead.” – Unknown

“Forever in my heart.” – Unknown

“Still here. Still loved.” – Unknown

“You’re missed every second.” – Unknown

“Gone too soon, never forgotten.” – Unknown

“I carry you with me.” – Unknown

“Grief is not loud. It’s the quiet moment when you see their favorite coffee mug.” – Unknown

“The silence after losing someone is the loudest sound in the world.” – Unknown

“It’s the little things that break you—like hearing a song they loved.” – Unknown

“Grief doesn’t announce itself. It sits quietly in the corners of your home.” – Megan Devine

“Some days the weight of their absence feels heavier than gravity.” – Unknown

“You don’t miss them every minute. Just every moment you’re awake.” – Unknown

“The house feels different now—quieter, colder, emptier.” – Unknown

“I talk to you in my thoughts every single day.” – Unknown

“The ache is soft now, but it never leaves.” – Unknown

“I keep expecting you to walk through the door.” – Unknown

“I still set the table for one more.” – Unknown

“The world keeps moving. I’m still stuck in yesterday.” – Unknown

“Hope is being able to see that the light is still there even when you can’t see it.” – Desmond Tutu

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

“After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life after the storm.” – Corrie ten Boom

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Light prevails over darkness, always.” – Unknown

“This too shall pass.” – Persian Adage

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson

“Even the smallest star shines in the darkest night.” – Unknown

“You were loved, you are missed, and you will be remembered.” – Unknown

“Tomorrow has another sunrise waiting for you.” – Unknown

“She wasn’t doing a good job of grieving. She was doing the best job she could.” – John Green, *The Fault in Our Stars*

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

“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted.” – Joan Didion, *The Year of Magical Thinking*

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, *Little Women*

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

“Nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.” – William Wordsworth

“Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep.” – Mary Elizabeth Frye

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion.” – Toni Morrison, *Beloved*

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“Grief is a river that never dries.” – Pat Conroy

“I can’t imagine my life without her, and I don’t want to.” – Nicholas Sparks, *The Notebook*

“We lived, we loved, we lost. That’s the story.” – Mitch Albom, *Tuesdays with Morrie*

“Holding you in my heart today. Always.” – Unknown

“Forever grateful. Forever missing you.” – Unknown

“Your light still guides me.” – Unknown

“One year without you. One million reasons to remember.” – Unknown

“Today, I honor your memory. Tomorrow, I carry you forward.” – Unknown

“Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you.” – Unknown

“Your legacy lives on in every laugh, every story, every hug.” – Unknown

“Missing you is my honor. Loving you is my privilege.” – Unknown

“I wear my grief like a badge of love.” – Unknown

“You taught me how to love. Now I’m learning how to miss.” – Unknown

“Shared grief is half the sorrow, shared joy is double the happiness.” – Unknown

“Thank you for being mine. I’ll never stop missing you.” – Unknown