Grieving Quotes

Losing someone to whom you were deeply attached to is perhaps one of the greatest losses. It is an indescribable feeling, wherein shock, regret, guilt, anger and sadness engulf you altogether, as your mind goes numb. You feel like you are in a world that is not real and soon your nightmare would come to an end. You wake up only to find that your loved one has seriously left you and that you would never be able to meet him/her ever again. You cry and cry, wail your heart out but to no avail. It seems as if the person has lent a deaf ear to you. No matter how much you grief, you need to understand that once gone, people never come back. The only way to overcome the sadness and grief is by coming out of the denial stage of mind and accepting the truth. Grieving is a natural process like death and one shouldn’t feel embarrassed about it. Even though the suffering could be more mental than physical, it drastically affects a person’s behavior for a certain period. This period is actually the time taken by a person to heal himself from the irreparable loss. Every person has different healing time, depending upon the loss, situation and his/her state of mind. Healing is a gradual process; it takes considerable time for a person to go back to the normal state. However, a supporting hand from friends and closed ones is enough to speed up the healing process. If your friend has lost someone and is in intense pain and grief, some comforting words from you can soothe him. Listed here are some best grieving quotes that can peel off the grief to a certain degree.

Grief Quotes

Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. - Turkish Proverb
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. - Christian Nevell Bovee
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief makes one hour ten. - William Shakespeare
If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble. – Moliere
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.- Swedish Proverb
Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. - Blaise Pascal
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it is digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. - Samuel Johnson
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. - Horace
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart. - John Adams
Waste not fresh tears over old grief. - Euripides
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. - Friedrich von Schiller
Compare your grief with other men's and they will seem less. - Spanish Proverb
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. - William Shakespeare
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. - Jim Bishop
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. - Xenophon
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; that only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The cure for grief is motion. - Elbert Hubbard
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears. - Joseph Roux
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true. – Horace
Grief is the price we pay for love. - Elizabeth II
Light grief is plaintive, but great ones are dumb. - Seneca
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.- Jean De La Bruyere
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. - Henry Maudsley

Let’s hope these great grieving quotes will help you shed your grief and come to terms with the situation!

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