Grief And Mourning Quotes

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.

We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

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.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

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

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.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

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.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

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.

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

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The only cure for grief is action.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.