Grief Quotes

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

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

C. S. Lewis