Grief is itself a medicine.
William Cowper
You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Mahatma Gandhi
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
Kahlil Gibran
We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of discords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud.
Michel de Montaigne
He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
G.K. Chesterton
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Buddha
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
Those who are attached to things will suffer greatly.
Lao Tzu
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
Joy is rejoicing what is, and sorrow is craving for what isn’t.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent, when they are not.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Tears are words the heart can’t express.
Anonymous
People generally don’t change unless a traumatic event occurs in their life which triggers the brain into new action.
Jordan Peterson
Die each day; die each day to yourself, to your misery, to your sorrow; put aside that burden so that your mind is fresh, young and innocent.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
True that we don’t know what we’ve got till we lose it, but also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
Paulo Coelho
We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.
Brené Brown
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.
Paulo Coelho
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
Jamie Anderson
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
Gloria Steinem
How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them.
Marcus Aurelius
Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly.
Cheryl Strayed
Thought is time, time is sorrow.
Jiddu Krishnmaurti
Death is a reminder to live fully.
Ram Dass
No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert
This is not the life you pictured but here you are. You can still make something beautiful. Grieve. Breathe. Begin again.
Thema Bryant-Davis
There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.
Fred Rogers
People just disappear sometimes. You have to love and appreciate them while they’re near you.
Haruki Murakami
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Ludwig Jacobowski
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Terry Pratchett
Relax. One bad chapter does not mean it’s the end of the book.
Paulo Coelho
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
Orson Scott Card
Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.
Carl Jung
Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it.
Jodi Picoult