Grief Quotes

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

Dante, The Divine Comedy

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Aeschylus

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

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

The Talmud

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.

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

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Samuel Johnson

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

Honduran Prove

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

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

George W. Bush

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

It is light grief that can take counsel.

Anonymous

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

C. S. Lewis

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

C. S. Lewis

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

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

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