Grief Quotes - Page 10

• There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

  Lou Reed

  Adversity, Loss, Grieving

  "Vision : Defining Your Destiny in Life". Book by Stephen R. Covey, 2000.

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Philosophical, Failure

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• Sorrow is the great idealizer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sorrow, Great Idea

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• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

  John Woolman

  Country, Time, Army

  John Woolman (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.156

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• Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

  Herman Melville

  Work, Men, Hands

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Grief alone can teach us what is man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sadness, Men, Teach

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• The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  People, Hopeless, Poor

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• There are griefs which grow with years.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Years, Grows

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.298, Applewood Books

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• Grief never mended no broken bones.

  Charles Dickens

  Broken, Bones, Broken Bone

  1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

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• Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Depressing, Art, Passion

  Thomas De Quincey (1862). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis”, p.182

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• One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Grieving, Bereavement, Calm

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

  Homer

  Long, Joy, Negativity

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• Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

  Jose Marti

  Real, Men, Suffering

  "Adúltera", 1883.

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• Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heartbreak, Hope, Lost Love

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• Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sorrow, Cry, So Sad

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.86, Canongate Books

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• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

  James Russell Lowell

  Joy, Literature, Knows

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

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• There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

  Christopher Moore

  Real, Sorrow, Doe

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
  By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Late, Worst

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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• 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

  Erich Fromm

  Grieving, Mourning, Bereavement

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• ‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

  Margaret Mead

  Trying, Married, Born

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• Patch grief with proverbs.

  William Shakespeare

  Patches

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

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• Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heart, Age

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.87

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• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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