GRIEF QUOTES

• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
  ~ Joseph Brodsky ~
• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.
  ~ William Wordsworth ~
• Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
  ~ Homer ~
• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• Sweet is a grief well ended.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• It is light grief that can take counsel.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Grief is a species of idleness.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
  ~ George Herbert ~
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
  ~ Charles Kingsley ~
• Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
  ~ Homer ~
• Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Grief is the price we pay for love.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• 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 ~
• Grief is the price we pay for love.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
  ~ Horace Mann ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
• Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
• Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
  ~ Martha Beck ~
• Time takes away the grief of men.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• Time takes away the grief of men.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
  ~ Jean De La Bruyere ~
• Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
  ~ Keanu Reeves ~
• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
  ~ Moliere ~
• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
  ~ Anton Chekhov ~
• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  ~ Ron Fournier ~
• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  ~ Ron Fournier ~
• I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
  ~ Alice Walker ~
• What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
  ~ Mehmet Oz ~
• We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
  ~ William Shatner ~
• We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
  ~ William Shatner ~
• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
  ~ Blaise Pascal ~
• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
  ~ Blaise Pascal ~
• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
• The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
• The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
• If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~