25 Most Helpful Grief Quotes to Write in a Sympathy Card

Do you struggle to know what to write in a sympathy card for someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one? Here’s a list of the 25 most comforting and helpful grief quotes to write in a sympathy card.

25 Most Helpful Grief Quotes to Write in a Sympathy Card

Grief is just love with no place to go.

Jamie Anderson

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.

Helen Keller, We Bereaved

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It is quite clear that the human being is allowed to grieve, that it is normal, it is right to grieve, and the Christian is not denied this natural response to loss.

Madeleine L’Engle

Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were mourning, and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

Anne Lamott

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Jewish proverb

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

Grief is what I feel when someone passes away, Grief is what I feel when I am concerned, Grief is what I feel when I have done wrong, Grief is what I feel when some accident happens, Grief is something that all people have gone through.

Brandi Reissig

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Rita Mae Brown

People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.

Fern Bork

Our grief is as individual as our lives.

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We get no choice. If we love, we grieve.

Thomas Lynch

We need never be afraid of our tears.

Charles Dickens

We do not have to rely on memories to recapture the spirit of those we have loved and lost – they live within our souls in some perfect sanctuary which even death cannot destroy.

Nan Witcomb

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Queen Elizabeth I

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

Eskimo legend

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

Victoria Alexander

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.

Dodinsky

Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery.

F. Alexander Magoun

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.

Kahlil Gibran

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero