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Quotes About Grief

Broken doesn't mean we're valued any less, it just means we've loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we've lost part of ourselves.
~ B.N. Toler, Where One Goes
I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.
~ Beth Revis, The Body Electric
The only loss is death.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.
~ Andrew the Apostle
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
~ Elizabeth I
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
~ Muriel Barbery
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
~ Omar Khayyam
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
~ Ville Valo
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.
~ Ram Dass
I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
~ Tammara Webber, Good For You
Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.
~ Guru Angad
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.
~ Ruth Graham
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
~ Jean Cocteau
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.
~ Richard Harris
When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.
~ Henri Nouwen
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.
~ Ellen Pompeo
Intense love always leads to mourning.
~ Louise Gluck
Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
~ Aamir Khan