Here are 50 best grief quotes collected from various sources. Which will help you to support, uplift and inspire in times of grief.

Grief Quotes :
- “Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” ~Mark Twain
- “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” ~Marcel Proust
- “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ~C. S. Lewis
- “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.” ~Emily Giffin
- “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
- “I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it’s OK to have all the sadness.” ~Ann Richards
- “If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.” ~Moliere
- “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~Rumi
- “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ~Jose N. Harris
- “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” ~Sarah Dessen
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Quotes About Grief :
- “When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” ~Pat Schweibert
- “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.” ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” ~Aeschylus
- “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” ~Veronica Roth
- “Time takes away the grief of men.” ~Desiderius Erasmus
- “The only cure for grief is action.” ~George Henry Lewes
- “Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.” ~William Congreve
- “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” ~J. K. Rowling

Healing Grief Quotes :
- “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
- “One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.” ~Pierre Corneille
- “Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.” ~Nicholas Sparks
- “It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ~John Green
- “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ~E.a. Bucchianeri
- “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” ~Keanu Reeves
- “While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” ~Samuel Johnson
- “Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.” ~Ovid
- “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ~Leo Tolstoy

Uplifting Grief Quotes :
- “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” ~William Shakespeare
- “Tears are the silent language of grief.” ~Voltaire
- “Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Time is a physician that heals every grief.” ~Diphilus
- “Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.” ~Marianne Williamson
- “There’s nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.” ~David Lachapelle
- “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” ~Anne Roiphe
- “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” ~Sarah Dessen
- “Sorrow makes us all children again destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.” ~Xenophon

Positive Grief Quotes :
- “Grief is itself a medicine.” ~William Cowper
- “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” ~Cassandra Clare
- “Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.” ~Anne Grant
- “Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.” ~Samuel Johnson
- “Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.” ~Antonio Porchia
- “Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.” ~James Russell Lowell
- “Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.” ~Thomas Horn
- “Grief is a species of idleness.” ~Samuel Johnson
- “Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.” ~Benjamin Disraeli
- “You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts.” ~ Rupi Kaur