Grief Inspirational Bereavement Quotes

“Perhaps...
To R.A.L.

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.

Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet,
Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet,
Though You have passed away.

Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright,
And crimson roses once again be fair,
And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
Although You are not there.

But though kind Time may many joys renew,
There is one greatest joy I shall not know
Again, because my heart for loss of You
Was broken, long ago.”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
― Latoya Alston

“You have no idea how grief will take you. The same with severe illness, motherhood, any profound experience. You don’t know yourself. Others don’t know you. These events show who you are. And you’ll be surprised, shocked even. You’ll feel the way you feel when you’ve done a particularly offensive-smelling shit – That couldn’t possibly have come out of me – and start to rationalize it – Must be that bag of pistachios I ate earlier, or perhaps I am unwell. You can’t believe you could do something so foul and unrecognizable. Something so outside yourself.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“When someone is mourning, there is absolutely nothing you could say to alleviate their pain. Just sit with them, hold their hands, and be present and compassionate.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“I won't be bringing flowers,
They cannot reach you where you are.
Ashes would return into ashes,
But the ashes won't bring you home.
I won't be bringing flowers,
They'd wither away and die.
I'd bring instead some butterflies,
To help you reach the skies.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“It is not because things die,
That they are beautiful.
Things are beautiful
Because somehow,
A part of them lives on
And never dies…”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“Sometimes grief is like a wave, and healing is like a butterfly.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“Grief doesn't answer to the rules of good sense, she doesn’t answer to any rules at all. Grief is a willful mother fucker who takes what she wants and spits us out where she will.

She will not be rushed. Refuses to be contained. The body of you can sustain blow after blow after blow and remain standing, and then the smallest of breezes will bring the whole thing down.

It took me a long time to make peace with this. To make friends with the raw, keening animal edge of it all. To understand that we all carry our grief differently, that it stacks and morphs and twists and hides—and then when it is ready, it rushes in, eager to finally have its say.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Sometimes there is a sadness,
That even tears cannot speak.
My heart alone knows the pain,
A pain so sharp and deep.

Why then do I hold on?
Why do I follow where it leads?
Ah, perhaps because it draws me closer,
It carries me where it is sweet.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“I thought the stars wouldn't shine,
When you are gone,
I thought that all the light,
Would vanish from the sun.
Let them stay forever then,
Let their presence comfort me,
Perhaps somewhere my love is still there,
In some secret place where beautiful things run free.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“You never know what will spark a memory in the minds of the mourning, and sometimes it’s something so little that it can’t be described at all.”
― Laura C. Reden, The Second Life of Everly Beck

“May love always guide your life.”
― Casey Rislov, Love is Forever

“I believe that it IS possible to live every day in the consciousness that is experienced as unconditional love.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“We can treat each other with compassion, with unconditional love, and a knowing that such a world enables a completely different experience for each and all of us.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“I believe that it is the relationship with self that sets the tone for every other relationship in our lives.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“Both my experiences of being well-loved on the one hand and being loved conditionally on the other influenced the development (or lack) of my self-love.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“I have moved through so many negative and positive feelings about myself. All of it has been conspiring to open my mind and my heart to who I am today.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“I hope that in sharing my experience and this wisdom, others in their own grieving process may find some hope in moving through their own experiences of loss.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“I had experienced unconditional love, I lost it, I started searching for it again... and then, I found it had been within me all along.”
― John S. Davis, The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love

“[S]he will be the warm breeze on your face; the solid ground beneath you; she will be the joyous sunrise; the quiet sunset; she will be the warmth in your heart; the song in your voice. She will be what you let her, a constant of peace.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“How I wish to be stronger
So I could bleed without fainting,
And in bleeding
I may cry,
With all the love I have in me.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“GRIEF IS THE MOST NATURAL HUMAN EXPERIENCE THERE IS, AND YET SOMEHOW THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE AND UNPREDICTABLE. LIKE ANY PROCESS, WE MUST BE WILLING TO EXPERIMENT AND EVOLVE”
― Addison Brasil, First Year of Grief Club: A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It

“GRIEF IS
THE LOSS
OF ANYTHING MEANINGFUL.”
― Addison Brasil, First Year of Grief Club: A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It

“Our loved ones from beyond are still right here. We just need to learn their new language.”
― Angie Corbett-Kuiper

“I’d be the sunlight that shined down on him on a warm summer day, and I’d be the crackle in the fire that hypnotized him on a cool fall evening. I’d be there by his side until the day he was there by mine.”
― Laura C. Reden, When I Was Becca Green

“Jealousy, bitterness, or resentment do not mean that there is something wrong with you. They just mean something is wrong.”
― Rachel Lewis, Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

“But I know what to do. I take a deep breath and find love again.”
― Emily Sands

“In life, we must first see to believe. In death, we must first believe, and then we will see.”
― Angie Corbett-Kuiper

“And even slow mornings, when sunlight skims on windowsills-I remember you.”
― Leonie Anderson

“Don't you find it strange?" She asked. "What?" He inquired. "That we feel grief so much more intensely than we do love.”
― Leonie Anderson