Grief Quotes
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.Vernon Howard
Sweet is a grief well ended.Aeschylus
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.Jim
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.George W. Bush
Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.The Talmud
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
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 doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Kahlil Gibran
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
It is light grief that can take counsel.Anonymous
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.Homer, The Odyssey
Grief is a species of idleness.Samuel Johnson
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.Jelaluddin Rumi
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.George Herbert
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.Euripides, Alexande
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
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.Samuel Johnson
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
That grief is light which can take counsel.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
The only cure for grief is action.George Henry Lewes
