Comforting Grief Quotes

#1. It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when grief itself overtakes the one grieved. When they become one and the same, so that we fear grief's retreat as much as we feared the beloved's passing.

Jessica Mesman Griffith

#2. He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

Julius Lester

#3. When we are sad ... it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

Donna Tartt

#4. We've run out of comforting things to say.

Suzanne Young

#5. Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#6. Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind.

Rin Chupeco

#7. The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.

Adam Silvera

#9. Instead of dwelling on the wickedness and grief of those who have sinned, I rejoice to read how many have abandoned their sinful practices and are now on the road back to righteousness and happiness. Let us rejoice in the spirit of forgiveness, which is the comforting message of the Atonement.

Theodore M. Burton

#10. The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

Hannah Harrington

#11. One thing I have learned about grief," I said to her, "is that nothing anyone says to you is useful, but it can still be comforting sometimes to know you're not alone

Jo Walton

#12. Many people tried comforting us with words. But there are no consoling words! I really just wanted people to be quiet. I appreciated those who cried with me, hugged me, and offered a brief prayer, but words were unnecessary.

Shelley Ramsey

#13. Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.

Donna Lynn Hope