Grieving over and missing someone you love is a big deal. It’s not always easy to give voice to the thoughts and emotions inside you.
These swell up to tears and down to numbness, then repeat, and it seems like no one else understands or can fathom.
The 22 honest missing someone quotes about grief are provided here to help you find the right words to express just how much you miss your loved one. Feel free to share, pin, or save as your background or screen saver, just be sure to link back to this post when sharing online.
The best grief quotes provide something more than a pat on the back. Truly thoughtful words of comfort provide insight and encouragement to a downcast soul.
I’m a great believer in the wisdom of classical literature. For years I’ve scoured old books of quotations, grief resources, the Bible, and other resources for insight on grief, death, loss, and remembering those we love. More recently, I’ve begun the ancient practice of keeping a commonplace book to log all the great quotes I find.
All that has gone into this resource to create the ultimate list of powerful, meaningful, and uplifting grieving quotes.
Below, you’ll find the most popular, famous, and meaningful bereavement quotes. You’ll see a lot of those on other websites. But more than that, I’ve unearthed sayings from ancient sources you won’t find on other lists like this. I’ve even written a few of my own (thoughts both original and derivative of longer great quotes) to contribute.
Read on, and I think you can find rich benefit from this collection of wise and timeless words.
What are other ways to say condolence? You know, something other than “my deepest sympathy” or “my condolences” or the all-time classic:
“I am sorry for your loss.”
Sometimes this can be such an empty refrain.
At some point in our lives, we will all have to offer our condolences to someone. And just what will you say? The same old thing? Or something a little different, with more meaning? Something that is a little more personal and authentic?
You want to say something to the grieving person that means a little more than this much-repeated phrase.
Read on and you can learn to give better support to your grieving family members or friends with 10 alternative (and better) things to say than “I’m sorry for your loss.”
Imagine that one of the people you love the most on this earth has died.
It could be a spouse, a child, a parent, a sibling. When someone like that passes away, it rocks you to your core.
Then imagine going back to work. Even if you were given a few weeks, even a month, to mourn, going back to work feels weird. It’s as if you’re pretending everything is normal when in fact your world has exploded. Life goes on, work goes on, and everyone around you is so… normal. As if your loved one had no impact on the world. It just seems off.
That’s what your colleague is feeling right about now.
Attending a funeral isn’t something that happens every day. What are you supposed to say and do? And perhaps more importantly, what are you not supposed to say and do?
There is nothing more painful than losing someone you love. The bond shared with a grandmother is pure and unbreakable, and her memory will live on in the hearts of those she left behind.
When someone you know loses their grandparent, the grief can feel unbearable. So as a friend or a family member of the grieving person, one way to show your support is to offer condolences through a sympathy card, text message, or a small gift dropped off at their home.
What is collective grief, and what causes it? How – and why – do we grieve as a community, a country, or even the world?
I can think of a couple of significant events. COVID-19 and 9/11 come to mind. What about the bush fires in Australia, Hurricane Eta in Central America, and the flash floods in Afghanistan?
Some disasters happen on a smaller scale. Local communities can have a fire, flooding, community violence (school shooting), or even a terrible storm (Hurricane Katrina).
Is your community equipped to help the grieving? Where do you go, and what do you do when there is collective grief?
Read on and learn how to cope with what is going on in our world today.
How do you tell a child that a loved one has died?
When a loved one passes, handling grief can be difficult enough for us grown-ups, and talking to children about death can be more difficult still.
Yet children too must grieve, and helping a child through the loss of a loved one – be it a sibling, parent, grandparent, or friend – doesn’t have to be intimidating.
Here is some guidance on talking to children about death, loss, and grief.
