Theme
A curated collection of quotes on heartbreak, grief, yearning and consolation — from Karin Boye, Tomas Tranströmer, Leonard Cohen, Tennyson and Pascal. For funerals, memorials, and for the moments when the heart needs words.
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Tears are words that the heart can't express.”
“Grief is the final act of love.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but what dies inside us while we live.”
“To live is to miss someone.”
“I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart.”
“We're all alone — born alone, die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
“No one is as alone as the one who has lost their only one.”
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
“Time doesn't heal all wounds. It teaches us to live with them.”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
“Yes, it hurts when buds burst. Why else would spring hesitate?”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”