Grief Quotes - Page 34

• Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow, Radiance, Divine

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

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• Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sorrow, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1886). “Tusculan Disputations ...”

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• Work makes a callus against grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Calluses

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• There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Joy, Circumstances

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• Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Weight, Surprise

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• It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sweet, Solitude, Sorrow

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• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

  Seneca the Younger

  Light, Sorrow, Tongue

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• Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

  Publilius Syrus

  Unhappy, Language, Weeping

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• There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

  William McFee

  Men, Hair, Sorrow

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Expression, Laughing, Tragedy

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.104, The Floating Press

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• Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

  Euripides

  Cures, Young, Stills

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• High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

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• Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

  Euripides

  Running, Giving, Gone

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The word
  was born in the blood,
  grew in the dark body, beating,
  and took flight through the lips and the mouth.
  Farther away and nearer
  still, still it came
  from dead fathers and from wondering races,
  from lands which had turned to stone,
  lands weary of their poor tribes,
  for when grief took to the roads
  the people set out and arrived
  and married new land and water
  to grow their words again.
  And so this is the inheritance;
  this is the wavelength which connects us
  with dead men and the dawning
  of new beings not yet come to light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Father, Dark, Men

  Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans, Robert Bly (2007). “I explain a few things: selected poems”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

  Sophocles

  Men, Suffering

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• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Groups, Proud

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• We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century.

  Primo Levi

  Doors, Land, People

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

  Margaret Fuller

  Visitors, Temples, Breasts

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.7

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• Where's the hope that can abate
  The grief of hearts thus desolate
  That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
  And mitigate the gloom of Age?
  Religion bids the tempest cease,
  And, leads her to a port of peace;
  And on, the lonely pilot steers
  Through the lapse of future years.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Hope, Lonely, Heart

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

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• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Gratitude, Short Life, Loss

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Healing, Mourning

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• Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Adversity, Escaping

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• In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Kindness, Compassion, Light

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• No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Husband, Real

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Funeral, Earth, Unnecessary

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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