Quotes About Grief and Loss

Grief is love with nowhere to go.

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

Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

You do not move on from grief. You move forward with it.

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.

There is no timeline. Take all the time you need, and then take a little more.

Say their name. They are still allowed to be part of the conversation.

Grief comes in waves. Some days you can stand. Some days you let it carry you.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

What is grief, if not love persevering?

You will not always feel this heavy. But you are allowed to feel it now.

Those we love never truly leave us. They live on in the way we speak, cook, laugh and remember.

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

Some days the missing is quiet. Some days it is the loudest thing in the room. Both are grief.

Be gentle with yourself. You are meeting someone new today, the you who lives without them.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

You are not falling apart. You are learning to carry something very heavy.