56 phrases of mourning to face the 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 take a major blow and make us reflect on many things.
In this article you will find the most inspiring grief phrases by such important authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Rafael Alberti, Marcel Proust or Oscar Wilde.
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Grief phrases to express your grief
Thinking about how difficult a company can be at this time, we have prepared quotes from famous people.
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1. The duel 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 duel, the closer God is (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
This phrase of mourning brings us closer to the idea of spiritual support that we find in mourning.
3. Only people capable of loving intensely can suffer great pain, but this same need to love serves to counteract their griefs and heal them (Leo Tolstoy)
When the cause is also the remedy.
4. Crying is making the duel less deep (William Shakespeare)
Since crying is the manifestation of our pain and the way to beat it.
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5. They say that time heals all wounds, but that presupposes that the root of the duel is finite (Cassandra Clare)
This phrase of mourning tells us about the process that it takes us to overcome a duel.
6. One cannot go through life without pain. What we can do is choose the pain that life presents us (Bernie S. Siegel)
This phrase tells us about taking control of our emotions in 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, since perhaps it is related to the idea of death or abandonment.
8. There is no duel like the one who does not speak (Henry Wordsworth)
About the weight that we carry and we do not allow to express it.
9. The only cure for pain is action (George Henry Lewes)
Since it distracts the gaze from the central object of pain.
10. Dueling can be a burden, but it can also be an anchor. You get used to its weight, how it keeps you in place (Sarah Dessen)
The owner has a time, when we have learned and nurtured from him it is the most appropriate to withdraw.
11. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but grief develops the powers of the mind (Marcel Proust)
A situation like grief 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 mourning, tells us about how a person can cope with the pain that may be felt.
13. Grief is a good thing. It's the way to go through life's transitions (Rick Warren)
For Warren, giving us time to say goodbye and prepare for a new stage is very important.
14. The best way to encourage yourself is to try to encourage others (Mark Twain)
... since one is learning and knowing tools to grow.
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15. Honest listening is the best medicine we can offer to those who suffer pain (Jean Cameron)
It is an act of benevolence towards the other.
16. Suppressed duel suffocates. It rages inside the chest and is forced to multiply its strength (Ovid)
On the effects of an unworked grief it can be somatized and manifested in some major problem.
17. Grief is a process, not a state (Anne Grant)
So since every process is transitory, we cannot live in it.
18. Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand (Patti Smith)
A show of empathy in these types of situations.
19. He who covers 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 its meaning without sadness (Carl Gustav Jung)
Because without sadness we could not find the value for them.
21. The duel ends by giving you the two best things: softness and enlightenment (Anne Lamott)
The process we go through during grief, endows us with wisdom.
22. Duel challenges us to love once again (Terry Tempest Williams)
That is the risk that is assumed.
23. There is no duel that does not speak (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
In some way or another, regret manifests itself.
24. Things that hurt instruct (Benjamin Franklin)
This phrase of mourning, lets us see the instructive part of the pain.
25. A man who does not cry would not be human (Norman Schwarzkopf)
In this sentence he exposes crying as an expression of human emotions.
26. Pain without tears bleeds internally (Christian Nevell)
The 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 taking the pain out, sharing your emotions, finding validation and support from them, all of which 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 find other more useful and effective ways to get rid of them.
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 seeking support from the other.
31. We acquire the strength that we have overcome (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
This mourning phrase refers to the strength we have gained in the process.
32. Loss is nothing more than change and change is the delight of nature (Marco Aurelio)
We must assimilate losses as a natural part of our existence.
33. Pain that has no outlet in tears can make other organs cry (Henry Maudsley)
This Maudsley phrase tells us that when pain does not have an escape route, it settles in some organ and it expresses pain through some symptom.
34. We must embrace the pain and burn it as gasoline for our trip (Kenji Miyazawa)
A way to sublimate our grief at any loss.
35. Grief is itself a medicine (William Cowper)
Since 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 duel except the one who has it (William Shakespeare)
In this phrase of mourning, the English playwright gives us to understand that we have to be patient with the people who are experiencing a grieving process since they are vulnerable to the self-control of their emotions.
38. Tears are the silent language of pain.-Voltaire.
And through them we wash our interior.
39. Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.-Kahlil Gibran.
Pain teaches us through loss situations until it gives us the necessary wisdom to understand some things.
40. The scars you don't see are the hardest to heal (Astrid Alauda)
This phrase persuades us to introspect honestly to identify our deepest wounds.
41. The world is round and the place that may seem like the end could seem like the beginning.-Baker Priest.
Life are cycles that are constantly opening and closing.
42. Grief does not make you imperfect. 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 the emotions.
44. Heaven knows that we should never be ashamed of our tears, because they are rain on the blinding sand of the earth, covering our hard hearts.-Charles Dickens.
A beautiful phrase 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 by Victor Hugo exposes melancholy as part of the grieving process.
47. Pain looks back, worries look around, faith looks up (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
With this phrase Emerson locates the emotions in time to better understand the cause of each of them.
48. True pain is as rare as true love (Stephen King)
And both mark and 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 by Victor Hugo refers to those people endowed with the strength to withstand many adversities.
50. Every life has a measure of pain. And sometimes this is what wakes us up.-Steven Tyler.
This phrase of mourning gives us an idea about the effect of pain on awareness.
51. A man who owns himself can end 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)
Talk about privacy and prudence in how you handle your problems.
53. How having a good day brings a happy dream, spending a good life brings a happy death (Leonardo Da Vinci)
An interesting reflection of Da Vinci in this phrase of mourning.
54. Don't 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 he does, the memory and love of our lost will be sealed within us to comfort us (Brian Jacques)
A deep reflection on the freedom to express our emotions and how this frees us.
55. Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with your color (W.S. Merwin)
One of the most inspiring quotes about grief.
56. You will not leave, my love, and if you left, even if you left, you would never leave. (Rafael Alberti)
A timeless declaration of love, from the great Rafael Alberti.