Grief Quotes

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Solomon)
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The only cure for grief is action. View quote
George Henry Lewes
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. View quote
John Cheever
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. View quote
Franz Schubert
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. View quote
Seneca
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. View quote
Emma Thompson
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. View quote
Washington Irving
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. (Joseph Addison)
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. View quote
George Herbert
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. View quote
William Congreve
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? View quote
William Blake
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. View quote
Keanu Reeves
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. View quote
Marcel Proust
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. View quote
Sophocles
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. View quote
Franz Schubert
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. (Benjamin Disraeli)
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. View quote
C. S. Lewis
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? View quote
Germaine Greer
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. View quote
George Eliot
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
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