Grief And Mourning Quotes

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or 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.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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

The only cure for grief is action.

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

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

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.