Grief Quotes
It is light grief that can take counsel.Anonymous
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.Vernon Howard
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
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.Euripides, Alexande
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
That grief is light which can take counsel.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Sweet is a grief well ended.Aeschylus
Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.Homer, The Odyssey
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.George Herbert
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
The only cure for grief is action.George Henry Lewes
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
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
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
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
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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.
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
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
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.The Talmud
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.Samuel Johnson
