Quotes To Comfort The Grieving

When someone we love passes away, it can be an incredibly difficult and emotional time. Words may not be enough to express our feelings, but sometimes a comforting quote can provide solace and help us through the grieving process. Here are 99 quotes to comfort the grieving:

1. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
2. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown
3. “What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
4. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
5. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
6. “We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” – Madame de Stael
7. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
8. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
9. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
10. “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Unknown
11. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
12. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
13. “Those we hold closest to our hearts never truly leave us. They live on in the kindness they have shared and the love they brought into our lives.” – Unknown
14. “The song is ended but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
15. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
17. “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
18. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett
19. “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
20. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
21. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
22. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
23. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
24. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
25. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
26. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
27. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
28. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
29. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
30. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
31. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
32. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
33. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
34. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
35. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
36. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
37. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
38. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
39. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
40. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
41. “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.” – Audrey Hepburn
42. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
43. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
44. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
46. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
47. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
48. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
49. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
50. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
51. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
52. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
53. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
54. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
55. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” – Martin Luther King Jr.
56. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
57. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
59. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
60. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
61. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
62. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
63. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
64. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
65. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
66. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln