Top 50 Healing Grief Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Loss Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Sympathy Quotes

2. “Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Family Quotes

3. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Appreciation Quotes

4. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

5. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Reflection Quotes

6. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

7. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes

8. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Creative Quotes

9. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Loss Quotes, Pain Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

10. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

11. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Loss Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Family Quotes

12. “Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Quotes About Hope, Pain Quotes, Smile Quotes

13. “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

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Suffering Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Sadness Quotes

14. “Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Soul Quotes

15. “To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Loss Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

16. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

17. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

18. “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Pain Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

19. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope, Quotes About Humanity, Appreciation Quotes, Powerful Quotes

20. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

— Linda Hogan

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Deep Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Family Quotes

21. “In the end only kindness matters.”

— Jewel

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

22. “A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Unconditional Love Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Family Quotes

23. “When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

Also featured in: Faith Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Pain Quotes

24. “Time heals almost everything. Give time time.”

— Regina Brett

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Patience Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

25. “People start to heal the moment they feel heard.”

— Cheryl Richardson

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Quotes About People, Healing Quotes

26. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Loss Quotes, Healing Quotes, Adversity Quotes

27. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Loss Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

28. “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Sorrow Quotes, Grief Quotes

29. “There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Quotes About Hope

30. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Morality Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About People, Healing Quotes

31. “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Healing Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

32. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

33. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

— Robert Fulghum

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Love You Quotes, Different Quotes, Healing Quotes

34. “Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.”

— Gary Allan

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Happy Monday Quotes, Bad Day Quotes

35. “Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Faith Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Hurt Quotes

36. “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Romantic Quotes, Love Is Quotes

37. “A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went.”

— Beth Moore

Also featured in: Quotes About Heart, Healing Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Hurt Quotes

38. “Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Humility Quotes

39. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Quotes About Heart, Sorrow Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

40. “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”

— Flavia Weedn

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Broken Heart Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

41. “That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

— William Wordsworth

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Loss Quotes

42. “Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

Also featured in: Making Memories Quotes, Missing Someone Quotes, I Miss You Quotes

43. “Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.”

— Leon Brown

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes

44. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Love Is Quotes

45. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Loss Quotes

46. “You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”

— John Green

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Recovery Quotes, You Are Loved Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

47. “When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Strong Women Quotes, Healing Quotes

48. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes, Grief Quotes

49. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Thomas Campbell

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Loss Quotes, Quotes About Heart, I Miss You Quotes

50. “The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?”

— Richard Bach

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Quality Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Soulmate Quotes