Grief Quotes

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

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

Dante, The Divine Comedy

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

C. S. Lewis

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

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

Publilius Syrus