Sometimes grief can take us by surprise. A loved ones dies. We feel overwhelmed by the grief welling up in us. We need a float to hold onto while we are lost at sea. The sea of strong feelings. Sad quotes can be that float.
Sometimes our grief is so deep that we can hardly feel it. It is more of an underground water reservoir than a flowing river. Yet we know it is there. We know we are not quite ourselves. We know we could use some help in bringing the river to the surface. Both a scary and a welcome idea.
And sometimes we just want some comfort. Comfort in the shape of words. Soothing words from those who have traveled the road of grief and loss before us. Who have gone through it. Who have let their grief and sorrow touch them. Change them. For the better.
In all these situations sad quotations or quotations about loss can be useful. Give them a try. Watch what happens. Observe any feelings welling up while reading these sad quotes.
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step towards something better. No matter how much it hurts - and it may be the greatest pain in life - grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.
- Gerald May -
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. - Sascha, - As posted on motivateus.com -
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 -
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
- William Shakespeare - - Much Ado About Nothing -
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
- Lynn Caine -
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
- Buddha -
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
- Colette -
We do not master grief, we move with it and through it, and make it our friend.
- Unknown Author -
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
- William Shakespeare -
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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 -
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
- Henry Maudsley -
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
- George Eliot -
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
- Lady Flora Hastings -
While we are mourning the loss of our friends, others are rejoicing to meet them behind the veil.
- John Taylor -
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.
- The Angels' Little Instruction Book - - by Eileen Elias Freeman -
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas -
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Sometimes grief can take us by surprise. A loved ones dies. We feel overwhelmed by the grief welling up in us. We need a float to hold onto while we are lost at sea. The sea of strong feelings. Sad quotes can be that float.
