Grief Quotes

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

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

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

There are griefs which grow with years.

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

griefs, when divided become less poignant.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.