Top 99 Inspirational Quotes After A Loss

If you’re going through a tough time after a loss, sometimes a little inspiration can go a long way. Here are the top 99 inspirational quotes to help you find comfort and hope.

1. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
2. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
3. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
4. “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
5. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
6. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
7. “There is no right or wrong way to grieve; there is only your way.” – Unknown
8. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
9. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
10. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
11. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
12. “The only way to get through grief is to go through it.” – Unknown
13. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
14. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
16. “You don’t get over it, you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t ‘get better’; it just gets different. Everyday… Grief puts on a new face.” – Wendy Feireisen
17. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
18. “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare
19. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
20. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne
21. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
22. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. “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
24. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – Jose N. Harris
25. “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.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
26. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
27. “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” – Chinese Proverb
28. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
29. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
31. “Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!” – Unknown
32. “The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.” – Eric Honeycutt
33. “The only way to get through grief is to go through it.” – Unknown
34. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
35. “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
36. “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
37. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
38. “When we are in a deep hole, we must first stop digging.” – Unknown
39. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
40. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
41. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
42. “The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” – Unknown
43. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
44. “Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.” – Dodinsky
45. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
46. “Our scars make us who we are. They explain our life and why we are the way we are. They challenge us and force us to be strong. They are a part of us and will remain with us always.” – Unknown
47. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
48. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip-toe if you must, but take the step.” – Unknown
49. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.” – Epicurus
50. “We all have a path to take, and sometimes that path is harder than we ever imagined. But it’s the difficult paths that lead to the most beautiful destinations.” – Unknown
51. “Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace.” – Unknown
52. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
53. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
54. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
55. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
56. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
57. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
58. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
59. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
60. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson