45 Comforting Quotes for When You're Feeling Down, Heartbroken, or Grieving

1. "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.

2. "The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy." - Deepak Chopra

3. "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne

4. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller

5. "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place." - Lance Armstrong

6. "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou

7. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

8. "Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable." - Mario Cuomo

9. "I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control — but how you respond to it is in your control." - Hillary Clinton

10. "The answers keep unfolding as your life expands, if you’re willing to see things for what they are—and what they can be." - Oprah Winfrey

11. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” - Bob Marley

12. “It’s not about getting over it; it’s about learning to live with it.” - After Chloe

13. "If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river: Just remember to build a bridge and get over it." - Taylor Swift

14. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!" - Dolly Parton

15. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1. “You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.” – Leila Sales

2. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts

3. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” - Marilyn Monroe

4. “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

5. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” - Faraaz Kazi

6. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” -Lord Byron

7. “When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut—it will heal, but there will always be a scar.” - Soo Jie

8. “Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.”- Najwa Zebian

9. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” - Steve Maraboli

10. “I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.” - Kate Winslet

11. "Holding on is believing that there's a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future." -Daphne Rose Kingma

12. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving

13. "Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurt and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty." - Anne Elisabeth Stengl

14. "Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?" - Leo Buscaglia

15. “Scars show us where we’ve been, they don’t dictate where we’re going.” - David Rossi

1. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” - Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” - Jack Thorne

3. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” - José N. Harris

4. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” - Alphonse de Lamartine

5. “You don’t heal from the loss of a loved one because time passes, you heal because of what you do with that time.” - Carol Crandell

6. "It is not the length of life, but the depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

8. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” - Helen Keller

9. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” - Terri Guillemets

10. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” - James O’Barr

11. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” - Irish Proverb

12. “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

13. “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” - Unknown

14. "Some bonds are so strong that not even death can break them." - Unknown

15. "Those we love never truly leave us. They live on in every kind act we do." - Unknown