Dealing with the loss of a spouse can be an incredibly difficult and painful experience. Here are 99 words of comfort that may offer some solace during this difficult time:
1. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
2. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
3. “The only way to get through grief is to go through it.” – Unknown
4. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown
5. “The sun will rise and set, the stars will appear, but my heart will never be whole again.” – Unknown
6. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
7. “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
8. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
9. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear.” – Unknown
10. “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
11. “I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says; “there, she is gone!” “Gone where?” Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “there, she is gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout; “here she comes!” – Henry Van Dyke
12. “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
13. “Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
14. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, love is stronger than death.” – Unknown
15. “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.” – Elizabeth Berrien
16. “The dead never truly leave us, they simply take on a different form.” – Unknown
17. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
18. “Grief is a journey, often perilous and without clear direction, that must be taken. The experience of grieving cannot be ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside or ignored indefinitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as change, as love. It may be postponed, but it will not be denied.” – Molly Fumia
19. “The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” – Seneca
20. “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
21. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
22. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
23. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
24. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
25. “The heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb
26. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
28. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
29. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
30. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
31. “Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.” – Michael Novak
32. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.” – Helen Keller
33. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
34. “To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
35. “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” – William Somerset Maugham
36. “Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.” – Michael Novak
37. “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.” – Unknown
38. “The only way to deal with grief is to go through it.” – Unknown
39. “The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
40. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
41. “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
42. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
43. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
44. “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne Lunde
45. “The only people who think there’s a time limit for grief, have never lost a piece of their heart. Take all the time you need.” – Unknown
46. “The only way to get through grief is to go through it.” – Unknown
47. “The best way to deal with grief is to let it out.” – Unknown
48. “You don’t have to
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