Grief Quotes - page 2

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. View quote
Cicero
All those who try to go it sole alone Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. View quote
Robert Frost
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In all the silent manliness of grief. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. View quote
Greg Bear
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - That myth is more potent than history. I believe 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. View quote
Robert Fulghum
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. View quote
Solomon
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. (William Faulkner)
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. View quote
Rumi
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From Evils which never arrived. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! View quote
Lord Byron
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. View quote
Sophocles
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. View quote
Martha Beck
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. View quote
Hugh Leonard
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. (Isaac Mayer Wise)
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. View quote
Sergio Aragones
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! View quote
Edmund Waller
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before. View quote
Rollo May
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. View quote
Chris Hedges