Grief Quotes - page 29

The show of weeping and of ruth To the forlorn will all men pay, But of the grief their eyes display, Nought to the heart doth pierce its way. And, with the joyous, they beguile Their lips unto a feigned smile. (Aeschylus)
Since to open out And mourn out grief, where it is possible To draw a tear from the audience, is a work That pays its own price well. View quote
Aeschylus
Chorus Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory against our pleasure we are temperate. View quote
Aeschylus
The only influences in [the painting 'The sick Child', Munch painted in his elderly home, remembering very accurate the last days of his dying little sister Sophie] 'The sick Child'.... were the ones that come from my home.... my childhood and my home. Only someone who knew the conditions at home could possibly understand why there can be no conceivable chance of any other place having played a part – my home is to my art as a midwife is to her children.... few painters have ever experienced the full grief of their subject as I did in 'The sick child. View quote
Edvard Munch
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. View quote
Richard Jefferies
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. View quote
James Nachtwey
Find in yourself the strength and wisdom to show love and care to everyone, near you, regardless of the region they live in, ethnicity or religion. Be wise and don't be fooled by provocation, be united under the idea of brotherhood, unity and love to the Ukraine! Russians, Ukrainians and all the other Slavic people, are historically brother nations. A brother can't go against his brother, it's a curse and grief. There is a force stronger than weapons in this world, it is love.", Tymoschuk about the 2014 political crisis in Ukraine and the Russo-Ukrainian war, 2014. View quote
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them. View quote
Hesiod
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. (Ignatius of Loyola)
There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul. View quote
Stobaeus
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing Eyes I wonder if It weighs like Mine Or has an Easier size. View quote
Emily Dickinson
This evening, he planned to make Sharpe drunk. He planned to force the grief out into the open and he would do it as the Irish knew how to do it, with a wake. [...] A wake, a decent, drunken, laughing wake. Hogan had ordered Harry Price to attend and he would force Sharpe to drink, to talk, to remember Teresa, and in the morning the grief would already be turning into healthy regret. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
The essential is That all the 'I's should remain separate Propped up under flowers, and no one suffer For his neighbour. Then horror is postponed For everyone until it settles on him And drags him to that incommunicable grief Which is all mystery or nothing. View quote
Stephen Spender
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving. View quote
James Russell Lowell
She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away. View quote
Libba Bray
Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him And every shame, every grief, every love. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Everywhere pain, disease and death-death that does not wait for bent forms and gray hairs, but clutches babes and happy youths. Death that takes the mother from her helpless, dimpled child-death that fills the world with grief and tears. How can the orthodox Christian explain these things? (Robert G. Ingersoll)
I know how vain it is to gild a grief with words, and yet I wish to take from every grave its fear. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I entreat you to devote one solemn hour of thought to a crucified Saviour - a Saviour expiring in the bitterest agony. Think of the cross, the nails, the open wounds, the anguish of His soul. Think how the Son of God became a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, that you might live forever. Think as you lie down upon your bed to rest, how your Saviour was lifted up from the earth to die. Think amid your plans and anticipations of future gaiety, what the redemption of your soul has cost, and how the dying Saviour would wish you to act. His wounds plead that you will live for better things. View quote
Albert Barnes
Come Grief, and sing a solemn dirge Beneath this midnight shade; From central darkness now emerge, And tread the lonely glade. View quote
Ann Eliza Bleecker
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. View quote
Kahlil Gibran