Grief Quotes - Page 9

• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Masters, Pet Memorial

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Losing A Loved One, Cry

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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Losing A Loved One

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Sorrow, Guilt

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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Hopeless, Hopelessness

  'Grief' (1844)

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• Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
  [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
  Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Blow, Sorrow

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• In all the silent manliness of grief.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Silence, Silent, Manliness

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 384

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• No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Grieving, Use, Prime

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• What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

  John Milton

  Running, Men, Needs

  John Milton (1752). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.425

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• Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Grieving, Agony

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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• There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Hours

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• Time takes away the grief of men.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men

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• Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

  Horace Greeley

  Ambition, Hands, Joy

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• Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
  And makes it fearful and degenerate.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Degenerates, Heard

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Bereavement, Tears

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• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

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• What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Loss, Winter

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

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• Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Winter, Woe Is Me, Years

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 18

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• O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Names, Sin

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.348

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• 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

  Heart, Past, Time And Change

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• Grief is a species of idleness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Species, Idleness

  Letter to Mrs Thrale, 17 March 1773, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'The Letters of Samuel Johnson' (1952) vol. 1

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• I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Grieving, Size

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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