56 grief phrases to cope with loss

These reflections can help you through the process of loss.

Unfortunately, at some point in our lives we will all have to experience the loss of a loved one. After this painful loss, life can give us an important blow and make us reflect on many things.

In this article you will find the most inspiring bereavement phrases by important authors such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Rafael Alberti, Marcel Proust or Oscar Wilde.

Grief phrases to express your grief.

Thinking about how difficult it can be a company in these moments, we have prepared bereavement phrases of famous people.

1. Grief does not change you, it reveals you (John Green).

Sometimes grief can show something about you that was always there.

2. The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the mourning, the closer God is (Fyodor Dostoyevsky).

This mourning phrase brings us closer to the idea of the spiritual support we find in mourning.

Only people capable of intense love can suffer great pain, but this same need to love serves to counteract their grief and cure it (Leo Tolstoy).

When the cause is also the remedy.

4. To weep is to make mourning shallower (William Shakespeare)

Since to cry is the manifestation of our pain and the way to beat it.

5. They say that time heals all wounds, but that presupposes that the root of grief is finite (Cassandra Clare).

This phrase of grief tells us about the process that it takes us to overcome a grief.

6. One cannot go through life without pain. What we can do is choose the pain that life presents us with (Bernie S. Siegel).

This phrase talks about taking control of our emotions in the situations that occur.

7. No one ever told me that grief feels like fear (C.S. Lewis)

For Lewis, fear is the representation of grief, as it may be related to the idea of death or abandonment.

8. There is no mourning like mourning that does not speak (Henry Wordsworth)

About the weight we carry and do not allow to express it.

9. The only cure for grief is action (George Henry Lewes)

For it distracts the eye from the central object of grief.

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

The owner has a time, when we have already learned and nurtured from it is the most appropriate thing to do withdrawal.

11. Happiness is beneficial to the body, but mourning develops the powers of the mind (Marcel Proust).

A situation such as bereavement opens us to new reflections and changes in the routine of life.

12. You don't know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have (Bob Marley)

This phrase of grief, tells us about how a person can cope with the pain that may be felt.

13. Grief is a good thing. It is the way to go through life's transitions (Rick Warren).

For Warren, giving ourselves time to say goodbye and prepare for a new stage is very important.

14. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer others up (Mark Twain)

...as one learns and learns tools to grow.

15. Honest listening is the best medicine we can offer to those who are in pain (Jean Cameron)

It is an act of benevolence towards others.

16. Suppressed grief suffocates. It rages within the chest and is forced to multiply its strength (Ovid).

On the effects of an unworked grief can somatize and manifest itself in some major problem.

17. Grief is a process, not a state (Anne Grant)

So as every process is transitory, we cannot live in it.

18. Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand (Patti Smith).

A sign of empathy in this type of situation.

19. He who covers up his pain finds no remedy for it (Turkish proverb).

When we face our sorrows we will find the solution for them.

20. The word "Happiness" would lose meaning without sadness (Carl Gustav Jung)

Because without sadness we would not be able to find the courage for them.

21. Grief ends up giving you the two best things: gentleness and enlightenment (Anne Lamott).

The process through which we go through during griefendows us with wisdom.

22. Grieving challenges us to love once again (Terry Tempest Williams)

That is the risk that is taken.

There is no grief that does not speak (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

In one way or another grief speaks.

24. The things that grieve instruct (Benjamin Franklin)

This phrase of mourning, lets us see the instructive part of grief.

25. A man who does not cry would not be human (Norman Schwarzkopf)

In this phrase he exposes crying as an expression of human emotions.

26. Pain without tears bleeds internally (Christian Nevell)

Unexpressed pain brings consequences within us.

27. Do not protect yourself from pain with a fence, but rather with your friends (Czech proverb).

This means to get the pain out, to share your emotions, to find validation and support from them, all this gives us the peace of mind we need.

28. Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrows can swim (Ann Landers).

So we must look for other more useful and effective ways to drive them away.

29. The greatest pains are those that we cause ourselves (Sophocles)

This phrase invites us to reflect on the origin of our sorrows.

30. Shared pain is diminished pain (Rabbi Grollman).

On looking for support in the other.

31. We acquire the strength that we have overcome (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

This phrase of mourning refers to the strength we have gained in the process..

32. Loss is nothing but change, and change is nature's delight (Marcus Aurelius).

We must assimilate loss as a natural part of our existence.

33. The pain that has no outlet in tears can make other organs weep (Henry Maudsley).

This phrase of Maudsley tells us that when pain has no escape route, it settles in some organ and this expresses the pain through some symptom.

34. We must embrace pain and burn it as gasoline for our journey (Kenji Miyazawa).

One way to sublimate our grief in the face of some loss.

35. Grief is in itself a medicine (William Cowper)

It mobilizes many elements to overcome a significant loss.

36. Everything grows with time, except mourning (Proverb)

Grief does not have to expand so much in people's lives.

37. Everyone can control a grief except the one who has it (William Shakespeare).

In this phrase of grief, the English playwright gives us to understand that we have to be patient with people who are living a process of grief since they are vulnerable to the self-control of their emotions.

38. Tears are the silent language of grief -Voltaire.

And through them we wash our inner self.

39. Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding - Kahlil Gibran.

Pain teaches us through situations of loss until it gives us the wisdom necessary to understand some things.

40. The scars you don't see are the hardest to heal (Astrid Alauda).

This phrase persuades us to make an honest introspection to identify our deepest wounds.

41. The world is round and the place that may seem like the end may seem like the beginning (Baker Priest).

Life is cycles that are constantly opening and closing.

42. Grief doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human (Sarah Dessen)

About situations that strengthen emotions.

43. Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.-Charmaine Smith Ladd.

The power of the mind empowering emotions.

44. Heaven knows we should never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain on the blinding sand of earth, covering our hard hearts.-Charles Dickens.

A beautiful quote about accepting our vulnerabilities.

45. Those who do not cry, do not see (Victor Hugo)

Because this human act allows us to have a deeper contemplation towards life.

46. Melancholy is the happiness of being sad (Victor Hugo)

This phrase of Victor Hugo, exposes melancholy as part of the mourning process.

47. Sorrow looks backward, cares look around, faith looks upward (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

With this phrase Emerson places the emotions in time in order to better understand the cause of each one of them.

48. True pain is as rare as true love (Stephen King)

And both mark the here and now.

49. Pain is a fruit. God does not make them grow on branches too weak to bear them -Victor Hugo

This phrase of Victor Hugo refers to those people endowed with the strength to resist many adversities.

50. Every life has a measure of pain. And sometimes this is what wakes us up.-Steven Tyler.

This phrase of grief gives us an idea about the effect of pain on awareness..

51. A man who is master of himself can put an end to pain as easily as he can invent pleasure.-Oscar Wilde.

This phrase invites us to use our creativity and intelligence to solve our problems and achieve emotional tranquility.

52. Pain is like a precious treasure, show it only to your friends (African proverb).

It speaks about the care of the intimacy and the prudence of how you handle your problems.

53. As having a good day brings a happy sleep, spending a good life brings a happy death (Leonardo Da Vinci).

An interesting reflection of Da Vinci in this phrase of mourning.

54. Do not be ashamed to cry; you have the right to cry. Tears are only water; flowers, trees and fruits cannot grow without water. But there must also be sunlight. A wounded Heart will heal in time and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones will be sealed within us to comfort us (Brian Jacques).

A profound reflection on the freedom to express our emotions and how this frees us.

55. Your absence has gone through me like thread in a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color (W.S. Merwin)

One of the most inspiring quotes about grief.

56. You will not leave, my love, and if you were to leave, even if you were to leave, you would never leave. (Rafael Alberti)

A timeless declaration of love, by the great Rafael Alberti.