Grief Quotes

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

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

C. S. Lewis

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

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

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Fernandez de Andrada

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert

Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

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

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Aeschylus

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

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.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

George W. Bush

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Euripides, Alexande

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

Honduran Prove

Sweet is a grief well ended.

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

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

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

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

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison

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

The Talmud

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

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