Grief Support Quotes

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
― Latoya Alston

“Can’t live your life with grief whispering in your ear, pulling you this way and that. But you can’t shove it in a drawer deep inside yourself, neither. Naw, you got to sit grief down and talk to it. Listen to it. Come to terms with it. Pain is the body’s way of saying it’s healing, so you gotta let it heal.”
― Kwame Mbalia, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

“Grief isn’t something you fix; it’s something you honour. There’s no flash sale, weekend retreat or quickly found solution. We often dream of a comeback from grieving, when the healthiest thing we can do is aim to come-through, by waking up every day and honouring our relationship with loss and how we feel in each moment that follows.”
― Addison Brasil, First Year of Grief Club : A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It

“I won't be bringing flowers,
They cannot reach you where you are.
Ashes would return into ashes,
But the ashes won't bring you home.
I won't be bringing flowers,
They'd wither away and die.
I'd bring instead some butterflies,
To help you reach the skies.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“There is nothing about this particular Saturday to indicate that something is going to happen to transform my life beyond anything I could possibly imagine. Nothing to suggest that, by tomorrow evening, I will be a changed person, having walked through a door to an entirely different life. That door will divide my life into before and after, slamming behind me with breath-taking callousness and ensuring that I can never return to the world I once inhabited. But, for now, I believe this Saturday to be a perfectly ordinary day and I live it without any knowledge of the catastrophic event that will occur at around two o’clock...”
― Vanessa May, Love Untethered: How to Live When Your Child Dies

“But it is all going to come down to you. You will ultimately choose how you come out of this. You will choose whether to open back up to love or retreat. You will choose whether you want to get to know the you that now exists. You will choose if you want to live within loss or die with the death of what once was”
― Addison Brasil

“Grief is not a problem. It doesn't need solutions. Seeing grief as an experience that needs support, rather than solutions, changes everything.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“Grief doesn't answer to the rules of good sense, she doesn’t answer to any rules at all. Grief is a willful mother fucker who takes what she wants and spits us out where she will.

She will not be rushed. Refuses to be contained. The body of you can sustain blow after blow after blow and remain standing, and then the smallest of breezes will bring the whole thing down.

It took me a long time to make peace with this. To make friends with the raw, keening animal edge of it all. To understand that we all carry our grief differently, that it stacks and morphs and twists and hides—and then when it is ready, it rushes in, eager to finally have its say.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“We are all unique, in life and in death. We are born, we live, we die, and we grieve, but my grief is not like yours.”
― Theo Boyd, My Grief Is Not Like Yours: Learning to Live after Unimaginable Loss—A Daughter's Journey

“I thought the stars wouldn't shine,
When you are gone,
I thought that all the light,
Would vanish from the sun.
Let them stay forever then,
Let their presence comfort me,
Perhaps somewhere my love is still there,
In some secret place where beautiful things run free.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“GRIEF IS NOT SOMETHING YOU FIX;
IT’S SOMETHING YOU HONOUR.”
― Addison Brasil, First Year of Grief Club : A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It

“When someone is mourning, there is absolutely nothing you could say to alleviate their pain. Just sit with them, hold their hands, and be present and compassionate.”
― Anoir Ou-chad, The Alien

“The smell of flowers was overwhelming, and it reminded me of walking into a flower shop to pick the perfect bouquet when my gran died. It wasn’t a good memory, and the smell was intoxicating. My heart broke while looking at the beautiful variations of flowers and smelling the sweet nectar. It was a terrible mix. The beauty, the nature, the colors, and the smell—all laced with grief. And what I could never comprehend was that flowers were for every occasion. You get them when you’re in love and when it’s your birthday; you can get them with a new job or a raise. And how is it supposed to make you feel when all you can remember is the smell of heartbreak, and it takes you back to that space in time? It doesn’t feel like a celebration of anything, but more like torture. Torture of the mind and soul.”
― Laura C. Reden, Dark Reflections

“Do not judge your grief, love. Do not rush it or constrict it or attempt to corral it into something the world will understand. Your grief doesn't give a sweet fuck about the rest of the world anyway. Your grief only cares that it is lived and expressed in you, that the fire of her is allowed to burn itself wild until it burns itself out.
It doesn’t have to make sense. It probably won’t. But it won’t be denied. So let it come, live its full expression. Embrace the animal of it until it is spent. It’s going to happen anyway, but if you don’t fight it, if you honor and respect it, your grief fully expressed can be its own wild muse.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc, You Are Not Too Much: Love Notes on Heartache, Redemption & Reclamation

“There’s a privilege in parting, after all.”
― Meghan Schiereck , Please Don't Die

“You Still Live (Overcoming Grief Sonnet)

After your month long battle for breath,
Today I place you in nature's lap.
I know she'll care for you well,
like she once brought you to the world.

Fact of the matter is, you still live,
just in different form among the elements.
Nature's forces make us awake and restless,
Nature's forces coerce us into eternal rest.

There is no heaven, there is no hell,
these are concepts made by cowards.
Life is too sacred to be confined
by obsolete lies and superstitions.

Your light of affection shall continue
to shine bright in my memories.
You who was, nay, is like my second mother,
I won't say goodbye, for you still live.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Fact of the matter is, you still live, just in different form among the elements.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Bereavement Sermon (The Sonnet)

You don't find a way out of grief,
You embrace it and it becomes your strength.
You don't find a way out of suffering,
You surf it and it endows you with courage.

Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness,
Road to happiness goes through sorrow.
No matter how dark life seems tonight,
without heartwrecking darkness, we'll
never discover resilience, and grow.

Amidst the grief none of this makes sense,
I've felt it first hand this past month.
So I say, it's okay to be shattered to pieces,
but you must gather the pieces and soldier on,
for the sake of your living loved ones.

It's okay to not be okay, it means
your mind is trying to heal itself.
Persevering pain for those who live,
the sun will rise once again.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If there’s one thing I want to say to the person who finds this book in their own version of year one, or year three, or year twelve, it’s this:
You don’t have to be finished to be okay.
You don’t have to understand everything to keep going.
You don’t have to let go of the past to embrace what’s here.
You just have to keep coming as you are.
Again.
And again.
And again.
That’s the whole thing.
That’s the whole path.
And for today — just today — that’s enough.”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“Grief.

It resists all of our timelines and attempts to control.

It is a wild animal of a thing, primal and raw in one moment, soft and tender and wounded in the next. Our bodies in those moments? Just portals for something so much bigger than we could ever be.

That’s the way of love and loss and grief and joy and all we hold in our wild and unruly hearts. Larger than anything we could construct to attempt to contain the whole of this human thing, as messy as it can sometimes be.

But when grief comes, mark my words, it will ultimately have its way.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Somehow, through this ritual, I had transcended the impossible distance between me and my mom.”
― Mindy Kaling, Kind of Hindu

“Jealousy, bitterness, or resentment do not mean that there is something wrong with you. They just mean something is wrong.”
― Rachel Lewis, Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

“After your month long battle for breath,
Today I place you in nature's lap.
I know she'll care for you well,
like she once brought you to the world.

Fact of the matter is, you still live,
just in different form among the elements.
Nature's forces make us awake and restless,
Nature's forces coerce us into eternal rest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“It's, like ... therapeutic for people to fall apart, as long as they can hang on long enough to build back up.”
― Kaitlin Cranor, The Nature of Cacti and Satellites

“I'm sure everyone's sorry and said they're sorry, and you've heard it a thousand times. We all mean well, by the way. We just don't have words.”


I rubbed a hand over my forehead. Maybe that was the end of it. A little different than the standard lines. She meant well. Good talk.
“It's fine. Most people just say ‘sorry’. I don’t need a speech.”


“I'm not, though.” Her hair swished against my arm as she shook her head. “It's sad your mother died. It is. Because of all the things she'll miss. It's very sad. But, I'm glad she lived.”
”
― J Rose Black

“In the storm of grief, love becomes the lighthouse — steady, quiet, always shining.
— Henry, trueYou Media”
― TrueYou Media

“A Warm Welcome to New Readers!

Thank you for stopping by.

If you’re navigating grief or loss, I hope my books offer a moment of peace and reflection. Whether you're healing from losing a beloved pet or honoring a departed loved one, I'm honored to walk beside you through words, remembrance, and quiet hope.

Warmly,

Henry

A Sanctuary for Healing and Remembrance”
― TrueYou Media

“Healing doesn’t mean forgetting. It means remembering with more love than pain.”
― TrueYou Media

“No one warns you about the guilt: the one that whispers you should’ve been there. That maybe the money you sent wasn’t enough. That love, from afar, still felt like failure.”
― AJ GABRIEL, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DREAM: Stories of Grief, Faith, and Silent Strength from an OFW Nurse

“Sometimes it's only through acceptance from which we find answers.”
― Maria Rodriguez Bross, Bodega Botanica Tales: Jose