Grief Quotes

Grief is itself a med'cine.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

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

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the bestî

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

No one is exempt from grief.
Gregory Maguire

Grief is the price we pay for love
Elizabeth II

Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead
Perses of Thebes

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
E.M. Cioran

Grief is a species of idleness.

Time is a physician that heals every grief.
Diphilus

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief Is only a shadow When compared with the pain Of never risking love.
Hilary Stanton Zunin

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop







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