Grief & Loss - 50 Remarkable Quotes for Comfort, Peace & Relief

If you suppress grief too much,
it can well redouble.
Molière

(1622 – 1673, French playwright)

Grief & Loss Quote: Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine

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Grief at the absence
of a loved one
is happiness
compared to life
with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere

(1645 – 1696, French philosopher and moralist)

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

(1709 – 1784, English poet, essayist, moralist,
literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer)

Grief is a normal
and natural response to loss.
It is originally
an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside
increases your pain.
Anne Grant of Laggan

(1755 – 1838, Scottish poet and author)

Just as the body goes into shock
after a physical trauma,
so does the human psyche
go into shock
after the impact
of a major loss.
Anne Grant of Laggan

(1755 – 1838, Scottish poet and author)

Occupation
– pressing occupation
that will not be said nay –
is a sovereign remedy
for grief.
William Godwin

(1756 – 1836, English journalist, political philosopher and novelist)

The loss of a friend
is like that of a limb;
time may heal
the anguish of the wound,
but the loss
cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey

(1774 – 1843, English poet of the Romantic school)

Sometimes,
only one person is missing,
and the whole world
seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations Poétiques

(1790 – 1869, French writer, poet and politician)

Grief is the agony
of an instant;
the indulgence of grief
the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield,

(1804 – 1881, British politician and writer
who twice served as Prime Minister of the UK)

Into each life
some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807 – 1882, American poet and educator)