Rumi Quotes About Grief

• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

• Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

  Rumi

  Running, Pain, Grief

• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

  Rumi

  Broken Heart, Grief, Sky

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

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Heart

• I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Drinking, Grief

• This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

  Rumi

  Dream, Real, Grief

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.154, Penguin UK

• The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Journey

• Joy lives concealed in grief.

  Rumi

  Grief, Joy, Concealed

• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.

  Rumi

  Grief, Taken, Sadness

• Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

  Rumi

  Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

• Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Grief, Taken

• Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

  Rumi

  Memories, Grief, Writing

• Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

  Rumi

  Grief, Mirrors, Lost

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

• Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

  Rumi

  Grief, White, Hot

• The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

  Rumi

  Grief, Medicine, Essence

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.227, Penguin UK

• Through love the devil becomes an angel.
  Through love stones become soft as butter.
  Through love grief is like delight.
  Through love demons become the servants of God.

  Rumi

  Love, Grief, Angel

• O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

• For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

  Rumi

  Pain, Betrayal, Grief

• How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Grief, Blue

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