Grief Quotes

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

George W. Bush

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

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

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

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Samuel Johnson

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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.

Homer, The Iliad