Grief Quotes

Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.

The Talmud

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Euripides, Alexande

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

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 is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

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 is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford