Grief Quotes - Page 6

• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Sadness

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tears, Olives, Dove

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Flower

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• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

  Seneca the Younger

  Light, Dumb, Great Ones

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• Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Enemy, Moderates

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.275

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• For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

  Earl A Grollman

  Grieving, Survivor, Closure

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• Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

  Joan Didion

  Turns, Magical Thinking, Knows

  Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.58, Vintage

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• The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Blunders, Indulgence

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• He who is resolute conquers grief.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Conquer, Resolute

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• The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

  William Hazlitt

  Littles, Bears, Truth Is

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1256, Delphi Classics

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• Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Two, Hydra, Born

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• There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Agony, Mind, Enemy

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.342

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• Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

  Epictetus

  Animal, Men, Want

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

  William Wycherley

  Loss, Way, Greater

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Connections, Favors, Argument

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• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Hate, Grieving

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Loss, Causes

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• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  Samuel Johnson

  Bereavement

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• Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Grieving, Soul

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 01, 2011

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• Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Lying, Bed

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

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• Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Want, Juliet, Wit

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

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• Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

  John Green

  Change, Loss, Grieving

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.162, Penguin

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• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sympathy, Doe, Ends

  "Troades" by Seneca the Younger, 786, 1st century.

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• My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grieving, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

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• Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Soul, Doe

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