Grief Quotes

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

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

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

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

Aeschylus

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Aeschylus

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

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.

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