Grief Quotes
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Erich Fromm
To bury grief plant a seed.
German Proverb
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
Alfred
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Unknown
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief
William Shakespeare
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
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
William Shakespeare
But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear
Greek proverb
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness
Herman Melville
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
Iëm sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes.
Jorja Fox
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him
Bible
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
William Shakespeare
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
