Grief Quotes - page 4

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more. (Richard Henry Horne)
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. View quote
David Hume
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine, with bondage and restraint: And with remembrance of the greater grief, To banish the less, I find my chief relief. View quote
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
But by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. View quote
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. View quote
Steven Erikson
The sweets of Pillage can be known To no one but the Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief. View quote
Emily Dickinson
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And a grief may bid, and evening guest, Bot joy shall come with early light. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. View quote
Joanna Baillie
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief. View quote
Euripides
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. View quote
Brené Brown
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. (Victor Hugo)
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people's wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on 'em. View quote
Charles Dickens
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. View quote
Erich Fromm
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand no wonder they come to grief. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. View quote
Homer
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. View quote
William Shakespeare
Everyone can master a grief, but he that has it. View quote
William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. View quote
William Shakespeare
Some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit. View quote
William Shakespeare
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
She wanted-what some people want throughout life-a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. View quote
Thomas Hood
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares. View quote
Henri Nouwen
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born-a hundred million years-and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes. View quote
Mark Twain