Grief Quotes

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

It is light grief that can take counsel.

Anonymous

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.

Jelaluddin Rumi

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.

Honduran Prove

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Home

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Aeschylus

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Fernandez de Andrada

Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.

The Talmud

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Vernon Howard

I? ll fight when needed, revel when there? s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won? t let anyone use me against my will.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Homer, The Odyssey

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush