FREE Grief Quote Templates

Zakes Mda - Tears are very close to my eyes… Not for pain… no… I do not cry because of pain. I cry only because of beautiful things.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Sarah Dessen - Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Earl Grollman - 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.

Victoria Alexander - 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.

Wendell Berry - Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

George Eliot - 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.

Nikita Gill - You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you have left behind in my home, in my head, in my heart.

Denis Waitley - A good life is a collection of happy moments.

Melanie M. Koulouris - Life is a beautiful collage of priceless moments and memories, which when pieced all together creates a unique treasured masterpiece.

C.S. Lewis - Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Lyndon Baines Johnson - All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

C.S. Lewis - Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer.

Ghandi - Here are no good-byes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

A.A. Milne - How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Shakespeare, Sonnet I - My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost - Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

Helen Keller - What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.

J.R.R. Tolkein - I will not say: Do not weep; For not all tears are evil.

Dr. Seuss - Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing - Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

General George S. Patton - It is foolish to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

J.M. Barrie - God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

William Cowper - Grief is itself a medicine.

Ronald Reagan - Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

Thomas Moore - Earth has no sorrows that heaven can’t heal.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - I wish I had done everything on earth with you.

Renoir - The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

William Shakespeare - Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it break.