Grief Quotes - page 3

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. (Xenophon)
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief. View quote
Petrarch
If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. View quote
Cicero
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. View quote
Alexander Pope
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. View quote
Robert Frost
The right hon. Gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief by his actions-who has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam-and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented. View quote
John Bright
From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. View quote
Joseph Addison
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said "we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge.” It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability. (Judith Butler)
...I learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief...lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it's not overwhelming. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? View quote
Jeanette Winterson
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. View quote
Alice Munro
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly-hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. View quote
Joan Rivers
There is no logic to grief. View quote
N. K. Jemisin
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. View quote
Sophie Swetchine
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. (Edith Wharton)
20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same. View quote
Clive Barker
Alone! - that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton