Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Grief Quotes

Duty Futility Grief War They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Grief Loss Love Mortality There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Coping Grief Healing Loss Resilience When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese footballer

Change Endurance Grief Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Keanu Reeves

Grief Perspective Resilience Self-Control Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Desperation Fame Grief Mortality Transience I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Angela Lansbury

American-British-Irish actress and singer

Grief Manipulation Political Ethics For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Dustin Hoffman

Fear Grief No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief Healing Healing through art Reflection Self-Discovery We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

Bonnie Raitt

Grief Healing Memory Remembrance Transformation Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Patti Smith

Singer-songwriter and poet

Death Grief Loss Pain No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham

American evangelist

Emotional Growth Grief Joy and sorrow Reflection Self-awareness 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

Poet and Writer

Grief Support Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Billy Graham

American evangelist

Connection Grief Hope Mystery Spirituality I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder... So yeah, that's pretty profound, when you're not expecting it, you didn't particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore.

Bonnie Raitt

Grief Letting Go Melancholia Separation Uncertainty For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

David Bowie