25 Quotes for Healing & Grief after loss
Walking through the loss of a child, whether through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or infant loss, is one of the worst pains a parent can feel. Sometimes the pain is so unique that you can’t seem to find the words to describe what you’re feeling.
Below are 25 quotes to help you not only name your pain but also to help remind you that you aren’t alone. Others have walked before you and have found hope again after devastating loss and you can too.
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord— Jeremiah 30:17
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller
“... 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
“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” — Unknown
"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
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.” ― Mark Twain
“Tenderly, may time heal your sorrow. Gently, may your friends ease your pain. Softly, may peace replace heartaches. And my warmest memories remain.” — Unknown
"Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow." — Unknown
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. — Tori Amos
Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. — Jerry Cantrell
Everybody has losses – it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende
Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. — Proverbs 16:24
“It’s like joining a club that you never wanted to sign up for, but you don’t realize how much it’s needed and how helpful that community is until you need it!” — Foreknown Ministries
Do not judge your grief, love. Do not rush it, constrict it, or attempt to corral it into something the world will understand. — Jeanette LeBlanc
"And to think, the first thing they say when their little eyes opened was the face of Jesus."— Unknown
"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
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Life need not be long-lived for it to be meaningful.” — Unknown
“A mother is never defined by the number of children you can see, but by the love that she holds in her heart.”— Franchesca Cox
“Before I carried the pain, I carried you. And in my heart, I carry you still.”— Unknown
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” — Jamie Anderson
“Some say you are too painful to remember. I say you are too precious to forget.”— Unknown
“She/he was born silently into this world, but their little life spoke volumes.”— Unknown
“The pain you have been feeling can’t compare to the joy that is coming.” — Romans 8: 18
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