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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
Sep 10, 2025
Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.
I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
Grief makes one hour ten.
Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger... It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
Dreams are more powerful than facts.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
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.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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 no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Beautiful people do not just happen
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
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. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
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 those depths.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The only cure for grief is action.
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.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.