1 Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. -John Green
Grief doesn’t change you into a person you’re not. It makes you vulnerable and real.
2 I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. -J.R.R Tolkien
Crying is not a sign of weakness. If you’re weeping over someone’s loss, all it means is that you’ve loved someone deeply and there’s nothing wrong with that.
2 No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. -C.S Lewis
Grief feels like fear most of the time. It’s similar to the fear of losing someone you love and being left alone with only their memories by your side.
4 Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow. -Leo Tolstoy
Only those who’ve loved deeply are able to grieve strongly. Your grief is proof that you were capable of loving someone to the core of your heart. You were able to unconditionally care for another and their loss has left a gaping hole in your heart.
5 To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. -Thomas Campbell
We’re alive as long as there are people who remember. We live on in their hearts and the memories that we leave behind. They cherish us and keep us alive.
6 How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -Winnie The Pooh
Goodbyes are heartbreaking. If you have someone who you never want to say goodbye to, consider yourself lucky. These are the bonds that you have to cherish in your heart.
7 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. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Grief never leaves us. It stays in the depths of our heart and crawls there in silence. We never let go of the memory of our loved ones, just learn to live with it.
8 Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. -Pablo Neruda
The absence of a loved one is vast and desolate. It’ll push us into a pit of loneliness and their memories will keep us captive, slowly torturing us every day.
9 Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. -Sarah Dessen
Grieving is a natural and human process. Just as loving someone makes us humane, grieving over their loss makes us equally human and not weak.
10 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
After someone we’ve loved passes away, they don’t completely leave us. They stay with us in our hearts accompanying us till the day we breathe our last. They live through the legacy that they’ve left behind.
11 The pain passes, but the beauty remains. -Pierre Auguste Renoir
The pain of loss passes away eventually leaving behind just a scar in our hearts. What remains is just the beauty of their life that’ll stay with us forever.
12 Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. -Jose N. Harris
The tears that you shed over someone’s loss doesn’t make you weak at all. All it means is that you’ve been strong enough to give your heart to another. It’s a sign of courage, pure heart and beauty.
13 When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure. -Unknown
Someone we’ve loved becomes a memory once they’ve left us. These memories are the only thing we’ll have of them.
14 You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss. -Mandy Hale
The more you try to bury your pain, the more you’ll hurt. You need to feel the pain, let it consume you and then get past it. Grief is a dagger that lodges in deeper the more you try to pull it out.
15 There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. -Aesychlus
Memories hurt because we know for a fact that we can’t have those moments back. The times we spent with someone who’s left us will keep haunting us forever.
15 Most Hopeful Grief Quotes To Help You Deal With Loss
1. Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. -John Green
2. I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. -J.R.R Tolkien
3. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. -C.S Lewis
4. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow. -Leo Tolstoy
5. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. -Thomas Campbell
6. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -Winnie The Pooh
7. 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. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
8. Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. -Pablo Neruda
9. Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. -Sarah Dessen
10. 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
11. The pain passes, but the beauty remains. -Pierre Auguste Renoir
12. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. -Jose N. Harris
13. When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure. -Unknown
14. You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss. -Mandy Hale
15. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. -Aesychlus