Quotes about grief-quotes

A smile is a song from the heart a tear is a letter from the soul.

Heat makes things expand that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

When the sun sets do not despair hope sits with you in the dark.

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

The Silence of the Final GoodbyeI knew you best from the silences,The time and space in between,The moment before our lips touched,The way your arms went up in the air before you laughed,The smile that we shared before we talked,The redness on your face before your tears,The sensation of your arms around me after you released the embrace.The look you gave me before you walked away,Nothing had ever been so painful,No words could say what your eyes told me,When I wake in the morning without you,It

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Nothing you did could have changed anything. And that being angry and blaming yourself for not being able to control the past or the future is only going to hurt worse. If you keep thinking like this, you will only be re-inventing pain.Heaven would tell you that it’s just a little rain. And it’s not the rain that kills you, it’s the pain of wanting to control the sun.

Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.

Count your summers, not your winters.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

Empty Spaces I wanted to feel less.To not be burdened by emotion,To not feel sadness,To not know loss.I envied the inanimate,The trees that stand proudly in winter,Not missing their leaves.I wanted to be weightless,To not experience limitation.I didn’t want time to pass,The blur of days, months, years.It moved too quickly,I wanted to grasp on,Hold it.It eluded me,Intangible,Like light.I wanted to preserve life before you were gone.I didn’t want to know grief.But the pain kept me connected.It mea

Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice.

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul.

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.

Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.

Use your tears to water the garden of your dreams.

Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm.

In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

If you deliberately and passionately grieve over the consolations of darkness and participate with your spirit in their annihilation, you would put yourself above other forms of life and lives of other people.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

The heart smiles when the soul shines.

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Death will paint everything a different shade of remorse. You’ll feel guilty that you’re still breathing. But you can’t stop.You’ll feel guilty for wanting to laugh again. And it will be awful the first time that you do. You’ll feel guilty for just about everything at first.And someday, at some point, you’ll start to feel guilty . . . for forgetting to feel guilty.But of all Heaven’s lessons, guilt isn’t one of them. You don’t need to hold on to it. It doesn’t need to be a practice and it shoul

She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss—perhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning to cherish alone the things they’d cherished together.She belonged instead to the sad lot who clung to grief, who nurtured it by never moving beyond it. They’d shelter it deep inside where the years padded it in saudade layers like some malignant pearl.

He had not been sleeping well over Christmas. Actually, he hadn’t been doing anything well over Christmas – eating, sleeping, exercising, talking, looking after himself, laughing, crying… No, he hadn’t really been crying despite all the pain he felt. It was just tearing him up inside, quietly. It was like his insides were being ripped up by an angered tiger.

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it’s vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.

Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.

Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.

When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the stars.

Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.

The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own.