Help With Grief Quotes

Help With Grief Quotes by C. S. Lewis, Khalil Gibran, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Mahatma Gandhi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and many others.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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.
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behavevery well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
The deep pain that is felt
at the death of every friendly soul
arises from the feeling that there is
in every individual something
which is inexpressible,
peculiar to him alone,
and is, therefore,
absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature‘s delight.
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
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Beautiful people do not just happen
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
Mary Elizabeth Frye
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
Those things that hurt, instruct.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Things must be felt with the heart.
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.
Sorrow makes us all children again –
destroys all differences of intellect.
The wisest know nothing.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
The sorrow which has no vent in tears
may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa