120 Quotes, Messages, SMS On Grief and Loss To Start Anew

In moments of sorrow and heartache, finding solace can seem like an insurmountable task. However, amidst the overwhelming tide of emotions, quotes on grief and loss emerge as beacons of light, offering a semblance of comfort and understanding. These poignant words, crafted by individuals who have traversed the arduous terrain of loss themselves, possess a unique ability to resonate deeply within the human soul.

The Unbearable Weight of Loss

The departure of a cherished individual from our lives plunges us into a profound state of anguish. It matters not whether the loss was anticipated or sudden; the pain it inflicts remains equally acute. In these moments, the enormity of grief can feel suffocating, leaving us adrift in a sea of emotions that threaten to engulf our very being. The realization that this experience is a fundamental aspect of the human condition offers little consolation amid such profound sorrow.

Finding Comfort in Shared Humanity

Yet, amidst the darkness, the words of others who have weathered similar storms offer a glimmer of hope. Quotes on grief and loss serve as tangible reminders of our shared humanity, binding us together in a collective tapestry of sorrow and resilience. Through these eloquent expressions of empathy and understanding, we find reassurance in the knowledge that we are not alone in our pain.

Embracing the Healing Power of Words

With each quote, we embark on a journey of healing—a journey guided by the wisdom and compassion of those who have navigated the labyrinth of loss before us. These words, imbued with profound insight and empathy, have the power to mend fractured hearts and soothe wounded souls. They remind us that while grief may linger as an ever-present companion, so too does the promise of eventual renewal and restoration.

The Enduring Legacy of Love

Ultimately, quotes on grief and loss serve as testaments to the enduring nature of love. Though our loved ones may no longer walk beside us in the physical realm, their presence lives on in the memories we cherish and the love that continues to sustain us. In embracing these words of solace and remembrance, we honor the legacy of those we have lost while finding solace in the enduring power of love to transcend even the deepest of sorrows.

Quotes on grief and loss

I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains. ANNE FRANK

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. HELEN KELLER

Grief can be a garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become the greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom. RUMI

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. ALBERT CAMUS

It is as if the intensity of grief fused the distance between you and the dead. Or perhaps, in reality, part of one dies. Like Orpheus, one tries to follow the dead at the beginning of their journey. But one cannot, like Orpheus, go all the way, and after a long journey, one comes back. If one is lucky, one is reborn. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control. KATIE KACVINSKY

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. J.M. BARRIE

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. WINNIE THE POOH

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. LEO BUSCAGLIA

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. PATTI DAVIS

This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy. NICHOLAS SPARKS

Although it’s natural to forget your power after you lose a loved one, the truth is that after a breakup, divorce, or death, there remains an ability within you to create a new reality. LOUISE HAY AND DAVID KESSLER

Quotes on grief and loss

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. LEO TOLSTOY

Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. PAULO COELHO (more Paulo Coleho quotes)

I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk around it. RACHEL JOYCE

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go. KATHARINE WEBER

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Dear lovely Death
That taketh all things under wing—
Never to kill—
Only to change
Into some other thing
This suffering flesh,
To make it either more or less,
But not again the same—
Dear lovely Death,
Change is thy other name.”
—Langston Hughes

No one is immune to grief. There are those amongst us today who have grieved deeply in the past, and there are those who are grieving deeply now and sadly. All of us will grieve at some time in the future. Lorraine Kember

However, what if we knew that death brings the possibility for acquiring a true life. You probably would not grief, but will joyfully and cheerfully say goodbye to those who gained something more than just life on Earth. Sunday Adelaja

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” — Helen Keller

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” — J.M. Barrie

Recognize that grief looks different at different ages. A very young child will not understand the permanency permanency of death and will expect Grandpa to be alive again in a day or two. Victoria Ryan

I cannot hold you near me, except within my heart,
But one day I will join you, and all grief will depart.
Till then I’ll tread on bravely, I know I’m not alone;
And when my work is finished my Lord will call me home.Greta Zwaan

What I know about the unique grief of grandparents is this: You grieve doubly. You grieve for the loss of your grandchild, and you grieve for your child whose child has died. Alan D. Wolfelt

Grief manifests in the realm of the soul, and although you may not be aware of it, you already have established mindsets regarding loss and grief. Devra Davis

There is no cure for grief which time does not lessen and soften. Cicero

Quotes on grief and loss

A mother feels her children’s pain and understands their grief in a way that no one else in the world is able. Familius

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Shakespeare

You must allow yourself to grieve your loss. What does that mean? To us, it means allowing yourself to feel those emotions, no matter how intense they may be S. Quinn

Grief is about a broken heart, not a broken brain. All efforts to heal the heart with the head fail because the head is the wrong tool for the job. John W. James, The Grief Recovery Handbook

The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. Elias Freeman

Grief that is dismissed, suppressed, or silenced harms individuals, families, and communities. Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin

Those who are dying and those who care about them often have valuable gifts to offer one another. When someone you love is dying you may not see gifts, but only grief, pain, and loss. However, a dying person offers enlightening information and comfort, and in return those close at hand can help bring that person peace and recognition of life’s meaning. Maggie Callanan; Patricia Kelley

So don’t lose heart if you grieve. Every healthy human being grieves in their own way and at their own time. Michael Dunsmore

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. Turkish Proverb

The world is not full of grief and despair as we view on TV most of the time. There is good in this world that supercedes evil. Byron Pulsifer

Grief and loss happen to everyone. We’ve all felt misunderstood during times of great pain. We’ve also stood by, helpless, in the face of other people’s pain. We’ve all fumbled for words, knowing no words can ever make things right. Megan Devine

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” — William Shakespeare

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” — Orson Scott Card

“Now there is one thing I can tell you: You will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power … that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.” — Marcel Proust

“Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, ‘Why do people die?’ and ‘Why is this happening to me?’ Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all.” — Caitlin Doughty

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell

Grief is not a condition to be cured but a natural part of life. Spirit does not know loss; it knows that every story begins and every story ends, yet love is eternal. Louise L. Hay and David Kessler

Ask anyone who has lost someone close to them how their life changed after they lost their loved one, and they will tell you that the before and after their grief was so drastically different that they truly felt that they grew from the experience. Valerie Orr

Grieving is a process that does not completely end; it evolves and becomes integrated into your life. … Grieving is a normal part of life, and the more we express our grief and not try to hide from it, the easier it becomes to manage. Stephanie Jose LMHC LCAT

Quotes on grief and loss

Our friend is hurting, in pain, and traveling along the road of despair and grief. But old friend, never feel that we will not gladly walk with you through these difficult times. Byron Pulsifer

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irriates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissapte the remains of it. Samuel Johnson

One of the most important things we can do for people who are grieving is to give them a safe place in which to experience and express their pain J. Nelson

ne joy scatters a hundred griefs. Chinese Proverb

Scientific studies say, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross being the proponent, that there are five stages of grief, namely: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Marita Kinney

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot

Most people move though grief at their own unique pace and many eventually find a peaceful acceptance. This does not mean that this terrible loss is “OK”, but rather that one is no longer battling reality and has come to a place of acceptance of what is. M. Barns

Happiness is to feel that one’s soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them. Joseph Joubert

As much as it hurts, suppressing how you feel is like putting a lid on a pressure cooker and turning off the steam valve, eventually it will blow. By expressing your emotions, you start the healing process M. Hunter

Grief will happen in five stages. It all begins with denial; closely followed by anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. However, each human being has a different way of processing death into their minds, hearts, and souls. Dorothea Jackson

When it comes to grieving many times, people cut their grieving time short because they believe that it is time to “move on.” The truth is, however, that there is no set time for grieving, and you should allow yourself all the time you need to grieve your loss. Bernice Gibson

Grief is a completely natural response to loss. It is the enduring emotions one feels when something or somebody that was loved is taken away. A C Aseh

One blessing in times of grief and loss is that we can often help another person by sharing our experiences. Betsy Duffey; Laurie Myers, The Lord is Their Shepherd

Through grief, we can experience an alchemical transformation that cannot be contrived, hastened, or imparted by others. Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable

There will always be a time for hurts to heal and sadnesses to pass, for we are as the seasons with our autumns, winters, springs and summers too. Johm McLeod

His great compassion, endless love, will bring my soul relief,
In time my broken heart will heal, God will remove my grief.
For now He gently holds my hand, He guides me through each day. Greta Zwaan

Why does someone else’s grief make us so uneasy? We feel helpless in the face of profound loss. Death is as final as you get. Florence Isaacs

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope. Candy Lightner

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope. Candy Lightner

In between moments of shock and unreality, grievers often experience extreme waves of emotion and even physical pain as they adapt to the loss. Courtney Armstrong

One of the basic needs for all humanity is to be comforted in times of personal sorrow or difficulty. Richard Daly

Quotes on grief and loss

Grief is the antithesis of this belief: it eschews avoidance and requires endurance, and forces us to accept that there are some things in this world that simply cannot be fixed. Julia Samuel

The great masters in every walk of life know the importance of breathing; they use it to prepare and recover and to get through difficult moments and critical situations. Dan Brule

The heart of the Father grieves over His people who have not loved what He loves. They do not love Him nor what He loves because they do not know Him. Derek Townsend

I am lucky, and now grateful, that my close friends and relatives hung in there with me, as I know I was not always easy to be with. ‘ I said a lot of “yes-buts” in response to the suggestions of others and often secretly decided they just could not relate to my grief. The most useful support I received was help with concrete tasks, receiving invitations for dinner or coffee – whether or not I accepted – and when someone simply accompanied me on a walk or went to a movie with me. Eileen L Cooley Ph.D.

We can heal from our devastation . . . Eleora Han, PhD

Although grief is painful, we can experience it as a positive, life-changing journey. We can heal from our devastation, shock, fear, and despair, and return to life again, only this time more fiercely, vulnerably, and wholeheartedly – more connected to the love that surrounds us. Eleora Han, PhD

How do we learn to have the courage to grieve? Some of us learn courage spontaneously, when we must act in order to survive. Most of us learn the courage to face new challenges in the process of living, experiencing and surviving our struggles over and over again. Judy Tatelbaum

Loss is painful. It crushes hearts, steals dreams, and destroys relationships. Grief can be terribly lonely. Those who are grieving need us. They need you. Gary Roe, Please Be Patient, I’m Grieving

I believe the answer to our existential questions lies in developing habits that enhance grief resilience – the ability to move through unwelcome change and achieve a sense of wellness and peace. Ruth E. Field

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” — Winnie the Pooh

“Life is tragic simply because the Earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death–ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.” — James Baldwin

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.” — C.S. Lewis

“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.” — Shel Silverstein

“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” — Samuel Johnson

“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” — Maya Angelou

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.” — Erich Fromm

Quotes on grief and loss

Bereavement is hard and if you’ve never experienced it before, it can be unexpectedly devastating and bewildering. For me it was as though I had stepped outside of my world, couldn’t gain perspective, or see the way back in. Theresa Jackson

We believe true sympathy hugs its arms around the griever, consistently letting them know that they remain in your thoughts long after the flowers have faded. Michelle Pommells

Unfortunately, grief does not have a set schedule. There are no deadlines for the resolution of loss. Instead, the grieving process consists of three broad and overlapping phases: Retreating, Working Through, and Resolving Carol Staudacher

Support helps people through the process of grief. Lois F. Akner

“When flowers wilt, when the sun sets, when a person’s life ends, even in our deep sadness we learn the wisdom to understand and accept life and learn the humility to forgive others and ourselves.” Haemin Sunim

Grief stays with people forever, but the sensation—the triggers—that come with a waft of perfume, a song on the radio or even a Mother’s Day flower can pull people back into the grief space until they resurface ready to face the world again. Leigh Van Der Horst

I believe no matter how much pain we’re in, there is something inside of us stronger than the pain.

While the journey will be different for each of us, it’s important to understand grief is a passage to be actively navigated. Grief is not a lifetime sentence; it’s a hard road to be traveled. It’s not something to suffer; it’s something to move through. Sarah M. Nannen

When we love deeply, we mourn deeply; extraordinary grief is an expression of extraordinary love. Grief and love mirror each other; one is not possible without the other. Joanne Cacciatore

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain

God pursues you in the prison of your grief. He is tenaciously reaching out to you at this very moment. At every turn, in darkness and in light, while you’re occupied with other things or wrestling with your grief as you lie awake at night, God pursues you with His steadfast love and His strengthening faithfulness. Michael W Newman

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” — Henri Mattise

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure … And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!’ And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you…” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope” — Elizabeth Gilbert

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” ― Haruki Murakami

“There is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.” — Alice Walker

“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.” — V.C. Andrews

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering.” — Helen Keller

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” — William Shakespeare

“I will not say: Do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

“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.” — Leo Tolstoy

“People speak to me about my son — ‘I’m so sorry for you’ — but no one says, ‘I loved him so much.’ I was busy in grief, which I don’t expect to stop. Suddenly realizing that the last thing my son would want was for me to be very self-involved and narcissistic and self-stroking. It stopped me from writing. Which doesn’t mean you stop feeling the absence. It was being willing to think about it in a way that was not self-serving.” — Toni Morrison

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” — E.A. Bucchianeri

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.” — Katharine Weber

Quotes on grief and loss

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

Grief can destroy you or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. DEAN KOONTZ

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. KENJI MIYAZAWA

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. MARCEL PROUST

The darker the night, the brighter the stars,/ The deeper the grief, the closer is God! FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight. MARCUS AURELIUS

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. J.K. ROWLING

Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried. MEGAN DEVINE

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. JOSÉ N. HARRIS

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. HARUKI MURAKAMI

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR

My mom has experienced a lot of loss in her life and she told me at one point, there is an empowerment that comes with grief—at some point you find it. It’s very hard but you will find it, and I think at a certain point you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise. And that’s what I’m just trying to do my best for him because I know that that’s what he would have. LEA MICHELE

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. MAYA ANGELOU

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