Grief Quotes

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.

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.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

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.

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

I get recognised a lot. If there are a load of school kids together, they'll shout at me, but I'm quite good at giving grief back. I give as good as I get.

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

Great griefs medicine the less.

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.