35 Quotes About Coping with Loss

Grieving the loss of someone is one of the most difficult transitions you will experience in life. Here are some amazing quotes about coping will loss that will bring you the encouragement you need and comfort during this time.

“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.”

“And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.”

“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.”

“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.”

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

“Grief can destroy you –or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone.”

“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and it’s over, and then bam.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“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.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

“Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.”

“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

“We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.”

“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

“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.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved.”

Coping with death is a difficult process to go through. With many stages to experience, grieving takes time.