Quotes

Quotes are hints and reminders to us through our journey of grief

“The grief within me has its own heartbeat. It has its own life, its own song. Part of me wants to resist the rhythms of my grief, yet as I surrender to the song, I learn to listen deep within myself” ~ Alan Wolfelt



“Tears are words that need to be written” ~ Paulo Coelho



“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ~ Gandhi




“Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger……..It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.” ~ Maureen Hunter




“So long as we live they too shall live and love for they are a part of us, as we remember them.” ~ Gates of Prayer




“Let me come in where you are weeping, friend and let me take your hand. I who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand” ~ Grace Noll Crowell





Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – Irish Saying




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. – Kahlil Gibran




While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson



Great joys, like griefs, are silent. – Shackerley Marmion



Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper, Charity




We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa



God is closest to those with broken hearts. – Jewish Saying




Time is a physician that heals every grief. – Diphilus



The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. – Max Lerner



You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. – Jan Glidewell



What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – Jewish Proverb



There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. – Author Unknown




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



Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. - Mother Teresa




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




Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death. - Author Unknown




To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. -Thomas Campbell




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. - Kahlil Gibran




The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe. - John Harricharan




I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum




I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss. - Rita Mae Brown




Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.
- Author Unknown



The cure for grief is motion. - Elbert Hubbard


The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. - Hilary Stanton Zunin



There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. - Washington Irving




Time is a physician that heals every grief. - Diphilus


We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa



Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. - Author Unknown



He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. - Turkish Proverb



I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum



Death is a brief separation A temporary pain



Death separates our bodies But our hearts remain the same And the memories of our love Will soothe away your pain And carry you over Until we meet again.



We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill



What the heart has once known, it shall never forget. - Author unknown


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