“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
Author unknown
“If tears could build a stairway,and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.”
Author unknown
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.”
Author unknown
“Grief is itself a medicine.”
William Cowper
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
from The Wonder Years
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief isonly a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
Hillary Stanton Zunin
“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
Old Chinese proverb
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
From a headstone in Ireland
“No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.”
C.S Lewis
“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
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
Mark Twain, ‘Which Was The Dream?’
“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.”
Lou Reed, ‘Magic And Loss’
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
Washington Irving
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
Aeschylus
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
Voltaire
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
Marcel Proust
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II
“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.”
William Faulkner
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
Keanu Reeves
“If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”
Emma Thompson
“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”
Nigella Lawson
“Grief is like a moving river, it’s always changing. I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”
Michelle Williams
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”
Quintus Ennius
“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”
Julie Burchill
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
Jan Gildwell
“As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.”
Sascha
“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
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass – if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it’s okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
Jodi Picoult
“Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.”
Dodinsky
“Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery.”
F. Alexander Magoun
“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes – when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever – there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
John Irving
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.”
William Shakespeare
“No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.”
Author unknown
