Grief Quotes

The cure for grief is motion.

Elbert Hubbard

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not

Xenophon

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief

William Shakespeare

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Emily Dickinson

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

Friedrich von Schiller

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel Johnson

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

William Faulkner

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

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Ovid

Every one can master a grief but he that has it

William Shakespeare

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble

Moliere
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