Grief Quotes - page 30

Grief is a sphere in that it can be turned a quarter turn or turned a millionth, it can be spun on any axis and by any degree and still its aspect is the same. (Antonella Gambotto-Burke)
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. View quote
Euripides
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. View quote
Euripides
Youth holds no society with grief. View quote
Euripides
If I should die to-night And you should come in deepest grief and woe- And say:-"Here's that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?" View quote
Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.
Whoever in a noble noose is caught, Although his lady may but ill receive His ardour and thus render him distraught, And no reward for his devotion give, Whence all his time and labour come to naught, Yet, if his heart be worthily bestowed, No lamentation to his grief is owed. View quote
Ludovico Ariosto
Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments. View quote
Bryan Procter
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world deaf to its voice and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. View quote
Herman Melville
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. View quote
Margaret Caroline Anderson
Love doesn't go away because we want it to, but remains even when it becomes a searing pain, leaving the heart a desert of bitter remorse and grief for joy, a happiness that once has been and now never could return. There had been a time when simply to touch this little bit of linen he held now so casually brought every aching moment of that love back. The sense of desolate pain-drenched loss traveled up his arm, enclosing his heart like a set of icy fingers. A time when to look upon what it held was unbearable. View quote
Alice Borchardt
He was magnificent, and I will never forget that in that moment, I first loved him. And I never stopped loving him. I do now and always will. No one ever brought me more sorrow or pain or joy than he did. No, nothing, not even my sons, has ever outweighed the love I feel and still feel for him. And I believe – had I known what the future held for us: all the trouble, torment, battle, and grief of our lives – I still believe that I would have yielded my heart into his keeping as I did then. View quote
Alice Borchardt
He said truth has a taste, and this had the taste of truth. A wolf would put it that way, but I agree it does. Some things just don't hang together, but others do. And a lot of times when you encounter it, you say, "I don't want this to be right, but it probably is, even though it brings me to grief.”. View quote
Alice Borchardt
Seemed like I couldn't stand it any more, The factory whistles blowin' day by day, An' men an' children hurryin' by the door, An' street cars clangin' on their busy way. The faces of the people seemed to be Washed pale by tears o' grief an' strife an' care, Till everywhere I turned to I could see The same old gloomy pictures of despair.The windows of the shops all looked the same, Decked out with stuff their owners wished to sell; When visitors across our doorway came I could recite the tales they'd have to tell. All things had lost their old-time power to please; Dog-tired I was an' irritable, too, An' so I traded chimney tops for trees, An' shingled roof for open skies of blue. View quote
Edgar Guest
Behold, we live through all things,-famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,-but we can not die, Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,- Lo, all things can be borne! View quote
Elizabeth Chase Allen
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Anyone can look at our books and what we've done over 12 years, we have absolutely nothing to hide. We are under attack despite doing nothing wrong, I along with the board and all our ambassadors devote our time for free to raise funds. I've put over USD 150,000 of my own money into the foundation and never received a cent. I'm spending four to five hours a day on the foundation ... and getting grief for it. View quote
Shane Warne
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person. View quote
Patti Smith
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. (Oprah Winfrey)
Who mourns makes grief his master. Who drinks makes pleasure his master. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain. View quote
Charles Dickens
Thou mourner for departed dreams! On earth there is no rest When grief hath troubled the pure streams Of memory in thy breast! View quote
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. View quote
William Ralph Inge