Healing Through Words: 50 Inspirational Quotes for Loss

"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

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

- Helen Keller

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

- Hillary Stanton Zunin

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"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

"In the beauty of memories left behind, in the lives touched and changed, in the gifts of wisdom shared…those we love live on, always."

- Ellen Brenneman

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and life you have left."

- Morrie Schwartz

"What a blessing to call up beautiful memories whenever we need them. What a blessing to feel close to our loved ones each time we remember."

- Alarie Tennille

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

- Cayla Mills

"Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours."

- Hebrew Proverb

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Orson Scott Card

"The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on."

- James Patterson

"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

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken."

- Anne Lamott

"I'm gone now, but I'm still very near, death can never separate us."

- Mary M Green

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time."

- John Irving

"Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop."

- Dodinsky

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."

- William Faulkner

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

- Sarah Dessen

"Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for."

- Terry Pratchett

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."

- J. K. Rowling

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."

- Washington Irving

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- Nigella Lawson

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."

- Jan Glidewell

"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us."

- Sasha

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

- Richard Bach

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

- Kenji Miyazawa

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"The music still plays in our hearts even after the song has faded away."

- Kevin Dilmore

"Peace, after a long journey. Love, after a great loss."

- Kat Stano

"Amid the season’s hustle and bustle, a warm, quiet place is reserved in our hearts for remembering the ones we’re missing."

- Suzanne Berry

"A long good-bye is, in many ways, the hardest good-bye of all."

- Linda Staten

"All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control."

- Katie Kacvinsky

"Though they’re gone, they still live on in every happy holiday memory."

- Sara Quenzer

"It’s the ones who touch our lives in the biggest way who show us that it’s possible to laugh and cry at the same time."

- Keely Chace

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times."

- Emma Thompson

"Grief is like a moving river, it's always changing."

- Michelle Williams

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

- Mark Twain, 'Which Was The Dream?'

"Grief is itself a medicine."

- William Cowper

"Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Tears have a wisdom all their own."

- F. Alexander Magoun

"Tears water our growth."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

- Marcel Proust

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

- Aeschylus

"Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."

- Eskimo legend

"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."

- Quintus Ennius

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

- From a headstone in Ireland

"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."

- Lou Reed, 'Magic And Loss'

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death."

- Julie Burchill

"There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard."

- Victoria Alexander

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

- Chinese Proverb

"There should be a statute of limitation on grief."

- Jodi Picoult

"What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul."

- Jewish Proverb

"There’s a new star shining down on us this Christmas."

- Caroline Cattrell

"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us."

- Sasha

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

- Helen Keller

"Let all the Christmas bells that ring give voice to our remembering: A loved one lived among us here and will be sadly missed this year."

- Jim Howard

"Now there is no more pain. Your loved one is safe and well in a place where peace is endless."

- Kat Stano

"Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."

- from The Wonder Years

"The pain of losing someone we love is the price we pay for the privilege of having loved someone and having that person be a part of our lives."

- Unknown

"The person we lost will never be forgotten. They will continue to live in our hearts and memories, reminding us of the love and joy they brought into our lives."

- Unknown

"When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure."

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot."

"The song is ended but the melody lingers on."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."

"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again."

"Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow."

"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 to grief is to grieve."

"Grief is like the ocean. It comes on waves ebbing and flowing."

"We've shared our lives these many years. You've held my hand; you've held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears - yet for a moment, we must part."

"I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them."

"Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop."

"Those whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are."

"A beautiful colourful rainbow could not exist if it were not for the rain of a grey day - it was born from the very droplets of it."

"No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why."

"Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?"