Grief Quotes

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

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Honduran Prove

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Vernon Howard

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

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

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

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

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

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

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Aeschylus

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.

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

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

C. S. Lewis

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

George Herbert

It is light grief that can take counsel.

Anonymous

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

Jelaluddin Rumi

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

C. S. Lewis

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

The Talmud

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

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

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

Homer, The Odyssey