Grief Quotes - Page 18

• It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Volcanoes

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.577, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Condolences, Profound

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• For grief is crowned with consolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Condolences, Consolation

  "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene 2, line 173, 1600s.

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• The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Disappointment, Joy

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• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Heart, Suicidal

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6914, Delphi Classics

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• We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Issues

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• The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the afterglow of sunset, like the silence that comes after prayer.

  J.R. Miller

  Prayer, Memories, Home

  "Making the Most of Life".

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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Light, Silence, Dumb

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Suicide, Funeral

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.92, University of Georgia Press

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Alcohol, Reactions, Wells

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Flower, Yellow

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Heart, Beer, Alcohol

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Games, Play

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• Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Emotional, Long, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Water, Growth

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• Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

  Sue Grafton

  Grieving, Space, Water

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Journey, Grieving, Knowing

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• If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

  Horace

  Grieving, Wish, Firsts

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, v. 102, c. 19 BC.

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• I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

  Charles Wesley

  Strong, Children, Pain

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• You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Condolences, Grieving, Stills

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

  Victoria Alexander

  Loss, Grieving, Three

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• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

  Joan Rivers

  Hurt, Fear, Grieving

  "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" by Readers Digest, (p. 87), 1997.

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• Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Heart, Grieving, Knowing

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “The Wind From Hastings”, p.198, Macmillan

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• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

  Robert Frost

  Grieving, Trying, Relief

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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