Overcoming the loss of someone you love is never easy. Losing a friend or a partner is a harsh truth that no one ever wants to face. While it is true that all of us process grief in our own way, we cannot deny the power that words hold on us. Words can soothe the difficult journey of recovery that lies ahead.
There is no timeline for grieving. Some people take days to recover from their loss, some take months. While there are some people that never recover from losing their loved ones. Their loved ones remain engraved in their hearts forever while they silently plunge deep down into their loneliness.
Loneliness comes in all shapes and forms. Being lonely does not mean not having company or any friends to spend time with. You can also be alone and surrounded by people who you feel like no one understands you. You are alone when your heart wants to shout and scream out all the pain inside but your mouth only smiles because you feel like no one will feel the pain like you do. Being in a room full of people and not being able to find a single soul who understands you or your pain is the worst form of loneliness.
It is undoubtedly difficult to understand what someone is going through, but we can do what is within our power. We can let them know that they are not alone and that they can rely on us in this time of need. Use these uplifting and comforting quotes to show your support.
Uplifting Quotes To Deal With Sorrow
No matter if you want to send these quotes to someone you know. or you want to read them yourself, these will help you deal with sorrow.
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face—I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Nicholas Sparks
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you
John Green
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear
C.S. Lewis
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil
J.R.R. Tolkien
Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream
Euripides
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception
Jodi Picoult
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable hemophilia: You bleed and bleed and bleed
David Mitchell
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it
J.K. Rowling
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope
Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated
Alphonse de Lamartine
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them
Leo Tolstoy
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard
Winnie the Pooh
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains
Anne Frank
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated
Alphonse de Lamartine
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us
Helen Keller
Know That you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them
Leo Tolstoy
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom
Rumi
Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human
Sarah Dessen
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Pablo Neruda
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Nigella Lawson
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim
Vicki Harrison
Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms
Paulo Coelho
Grief is the price we pay for love
Queen Elizabeth II
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other
Leo Buscaglia
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief
Emily Giffin
The pain passes, but the beauty remains
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing
Rosamund Lupton
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
John Steinbeck
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart
Jose N. Harris
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart
Mahatma Gandhi
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard
Victoria Alexander
Tis’ better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Alfred Lord Tennyson
She was no longer wrestling with grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thought
George Eliot
Grief and love are conjoined—you don’t get one without the other
Jandy Nelson
Hopeful Quotes To Read In Time Of Need
Hope! The only light at the end of the tunnel that keeps us going. When our world stops revolving, the hope of a better tomorrow is the one thing that keeps us going. We have listed some hopeful quotes to help you recover from your inevitable loss!
See how time makes all grief decay
Adelaide Anne Procter
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life
Anne Roiphe
The song is ended but the melody lingers on
Irving Berlin
You left this world, but not my heart
Sally Painter
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard
A.A. Milne
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.
Anne Frank
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry
Charles Bukowski
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches
Yann Martel
It’s like I have this large black hole in my brain and it’s sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness
Katie McGarry
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die
Thomas Campbell
You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss
Mandy Hale
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end
John Lennon
Absence and death are the same. Only that in death there is no suffering
Theodore Roosevelt
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today
Nhat Hanh
All things grow with time, except grief
Jewish Proverb
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it
Ranata Suzuki
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left
Sufi
I often feel that when someone passes, you now have an angel you can call by name
Oprah Winfrey
Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind
Katherine Owen
No matter how prepared you think you are for death of loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply
Billy Graham
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief
Sophocles
Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
George R.R. Martin
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death
Leonardo Da Vinci
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it
William Shakespeare
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity
Terri Guillemets
In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams … that is where you and I shall meet
Lewis Carroll
When it is darkest, we can see the stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December
J.M. Barrie
I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Alyson Noel, Evermore
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief
William Faulkner
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a 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 Grollman
Pain is certain, suffering is optional
Buddha
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
Encouraging Biblical Quotes For The Grieving
Only God knows the true pain hidden inside our hearts. We are His children and He cares the most for all of us. Even in the tough time when you face grief, God does not leave you alone. His words are preserved in Bible, to help us on this tough journey by knowing that even if we have no one, God will always be there.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me
Psalm 23:4
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life
Psalm 119:50
The Lord is near to those who are broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze
Isaiah 43:2
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:21-23
Famous Celebrities Who Dealt With Grief
Unlike we see them on screen, celebrities are also real people with real emotions. Just Like us, they go through the ups and downs of life and face grief. But they do not have the privilege of dealing with their grief behind closed doors. Some of the famous celebrities who fought their war with grief bravely and inspire us to do the same are as follows. Read on to find out what they had to say about their difficult time and how they overcame it.
Take your broken heart, make it into art
Carrie Fisher
I’ve had a great deal of suffering in my life… I’ve had a lot of things happen to me that I don’t talk about in the press. I’ve had a lot of really heartbreaking, difficult things. But all of those things have strengthened my resolve to make the best of my life
Gwyneth Paltrow
There are many stages of grief. It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I’m a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren’t in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it
Jennifer Aniston
When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I’d feel that pain in my life. I’m afraid of feeling that again
Rihanna
No, it doesn’t feel good. It doesn’t feel good in this moment, but in the future, it’s the thing that’s going to light you up so you can stay lit! When you look at the thing, the deeper the heartache, the more you needed to learn, and that’s actually the truth… Every heartache is there to teach you something about yourself
Oprah Winfrey
I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left. I’m lucky I found one little glimmer stored away
Lady Gaga
Life’s short… there’s so much to give, there are so many people in it, so much beauty in it. My mother tells me that a story has to move forward. You’re not supposed to read one chapter over and over again. You turn the chapter and you go on to the next experience, whether it’s a film, the next person, the next city, or life
Priyanka Chopra
I think it’s great to have been wrong in love and been destroyed and heartbroken. I just think it makes what you imagined to be a life choice better. Everybody should date, if that’s what you’re interested in, and you should be wrong, and you should break some hearts and your heart should be broken, and you should lay in bed in your old days next to a telephone, looking at it, hoping it’s going to ring, and be disappointed that it never does
Sarah Jessica Parker
That is what let me to this new awakening, this realizing, if I don’t do some self-love, I’m not going to be able to keep the love I want
Katy Perry
The truth is, I should be angry, resentful and disillusioned about relationships. But I’m not. Love did not work with that person. But it can work with another
Eva Longoria
I was crawling on the floor. I remember throwing up. Like, within the hour. I remember being on the floor… I have never felt anything quite like that. It was so visceral. It’s like someone has killed you and you have to live through it and watch it happen… It was awful
Emma Stone
I was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition that I had. I don’t ever want to have to need someone again where you feel like, without them, you can’t be yourself
Miley Cyrus
When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think, Are they crazy? I’m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute. And nothing’s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I’m like, nothing’s ever gonna make sense again
Reese Witherspoon
Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands
Amy Poehler
The truth is, I should be angry, resentful and disillusioned about relationships. But I’m not. Love did not work with that person. But it can work with another
Eva Longoria
As women, we go into marriage thinking it’s going to last forever and that this is our prince on a shiny horse. That’s what fairytales taught me as a kid… We go in there with that hope, so when it falls apart it feels like a huge failure and a huge disappointment. I’ve often felt guilty and responsible. I’ve suffered a lot of pain and anguish
Halle Berry
What you need to know is, nobody can save you or heal you. Only you can do that for you
Jennifer Lopez
I know the yearning… It’s a huge, aching yearning. And the loss! The loss of a miscarriage is not talked about enough. That’s massive grief to certain women. There’s an enormous amount of pain—and an enormous amount of joy on the other side of it. The flipside of going through so much yearning and pain to get there is the feeling of ‘Ahhhh!’ when you have the child
Nicole Kidman
A heartbroken person is unlike any other person. Their time moves at a completely different pace than ours. It’s this mental, physical, emotional ache and feeling so conflicted. Nothing distracts you from it. Then time passes, and the more you live your life and create new habits, you get used to not having a text message every morning saying, ‘Hello, beautiful. Good morning
Taylor Swift
I am a little shy this time because I am not as strong inside as I have been in the past. It’s not something I wanted. There’s nothing nice about it. It’s just hard. Sometimes maybe it appears I am pulling it all together, but really I am just trying to get through my days
Angelina Jolie
What scares me is that I’m going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I’m really not lovable, that I’m not worthy of being loved. That there’s something fundamentally wrong with me… The fight against gravity for me is to find that love for myself that gives me the courage to reach my fullest potential
Demi Moore
You just think you’re never gonna get up off of the floor, you think you’re never gonna get out of the funk that you’re in and you do, the sun rises the next day, and you get up, and you just keep going
Jordin Sparks
I would rather have my heart broken a thousand times than never to love at all. I have so much love to give—I’m not empty of love, I’m full of love
Cameron Diaz
Recap
Remember to be kin to yourself. Like everything else, grief also comes in stages. It is best to accept these feelings rather than suppressing them. Grief and joy go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. Know that there is always hope. Hope for a better tomorrow. Hope for happiness. Hope to live again.
It is always best to try and voice your feelings. Confide in someone you trust. You don’t have to fight all these battles yourself. It is okay to lean on someone every once in a while. If you know someone who is suffering from grief, if you cannot do anything for them, lend them a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on. Be there for one another in this hour.
You can also share these words for uplifting their mood and provide them hope. No matter what, Always love yourself.
Also Read: Death Quotes For Loved Ones Which Will Ease The Pain
