Grief And Loss Inspirational Quotes

• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Sympathy, Memories

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or 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 A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Death, Gratitude, Grief

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• 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

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Heartbreak, True Love, Heartbroken

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Healing, Grieving

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Masters

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

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• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Death, Loyalty

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