QUOTES TO SUPPORT A GRIEVING FRIEND

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

“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 Kübler-Ross

“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman

“Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.” – Salvador Dali

“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.” – Unknown

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

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“You don’t get over it, you just get through it. You don’t get by it because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t ‘get better’; it just gets different. Everyday… Grief puts on a new face.” – Wendy Feireisen

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” – Anne Lamott

“Grief is the way we love someone we’ve lost.” – John Ames

“If there is a light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.” – Chinese Proverb QUOTES THAT INSPIRE YOU

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

“Nothing loved is ever truly lost, and we are never alone, as long as we can remember.” – Dr. Jackson Brown Jr.

“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

“Grief is like the ocean; it’s deep, dark, and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night, quietly robbing you of all the things you love. It’s also like a world you’ve never been to before – a world without color, noise, or taste.” – Henry Rollins

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be concluded before you can judge rightly of it.” – Samuel Johnson

“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe

“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“When it seems like the sun will never shine again, embrace the warmth of the memories you shared.” – Unknown

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

“In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I shall meet.” – Lewis Carroll

“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Unknown