Grief Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sweet is a grief well ended.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

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.

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.

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

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

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

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

You said move on, where do I go?

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

There is no grief like heartbreak.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.