Grief Quotes

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.

Honduran Prove

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

C. S. Lewis

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

Publilius Syrus

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860