Grief Quotes Quotes

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Use your tears to water the garden of your dreams.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Heat makes things expand, that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you deliberately and passionately grieve over the consolations of darkness and participate with your spirit in their annihilation, you would put yourself above other forms of life and lives of other people.

~ Ivo Žurić

Hope is a better friend than despair.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The heart smiles when the soul shines.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

He had not been sleeping well over Christmas. Actually, he hadn’t been doing anything well over Christmas – eating, sleeping, exercising, talking, looking after himself, laughing, crying… No, he hadn’t really been crying despite all the pain he felt. It was just tearing him up inside, quietly. It was like his insides were being ripped up by an angered tiger.

~ Pamela Harju

She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss—perhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning to cherish alone the things they’d cherished together.She belonged instead to the sad lot who clung to grief, who nurtured it by never moving beyond it. They’d shelter it deep inside where the years padded it in saudade layers like some malignant pearl.

~ Darrell Drake

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

~ Sharon Salzberg

It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it’s vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.

~ Ann Benjamin

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

~ Liu Cixin

Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

~ Wylie R. Weeks

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

~ Wylie R. Weeks

But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, You’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.

~ Tessa Shaffer

Death will paint everything a different shade of remorse. You’ll feel guilty that you’re still breathing. But you can’t stop.You’ll feel guilty for wanting to laugh again. And it will be awful the first time that you do. You’ll feel guilty for just about everything at first.And someday, at some point, you’ll start to feel guilty . . . for forgetting to feel guilty.But of all Heaven’s lessons, guilt isn’t one of them. You don’t need to hold on to it. It doesn’t need to be a practice and it shouldn’t be your life. Heaven would never approve of your guilt.Because Heaven has no regrets.

~ Tessa Shaffer

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

~ Neena Verma

The Silence of the Final GoodbyeI knew you best from the silences,The time and space in between,The moment before our lips touched,The way your arms went up in the air before you laughed,The smile that we shared before we talked,The redness on your face before your tears,The sensation of your arms around me after you released the embrace.The look you gave me before you walked away,Nothing had ever been so painful,No words could say what your eyes told me,When I wake in the morning without you,It’s the first thing I hear…The silence of the final goodbye.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Nothing you did could have changed anything. And that being angry and blaming yourself for not being able to control the past or the future is only going to hurt worse. If you keep thinking like this, you will only be re-inventing pain.Heaven would tell you that it’s just a little rain. And it’s not the rain that kills you, it’s the pain of wanting to control the sun.

~ Tessa Shaffer

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your summers, not your winters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo