Grief Quotes

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

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

Jelaluddin Rumi

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

Honduran Prove

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

Samuel Johnson

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais