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Here is the beginning of our collection of the best grief quotes.


When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. ~author unknown


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


Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. ~author unknown


No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ~C.S. Lewis


To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. ~Erich Fromm


Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire


There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Every one can master a grief but he that has it. ~William Shakespeare


I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. ~Emily Dickinson


Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? ~William Blake


Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. ~Anne Grant


If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere


One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ~Pierre Corneille


Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ~Ovid


The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen


If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again. ~Author Unknown


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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ~Washington Irving


While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor

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