Grief Quotes

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

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.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

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.

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

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

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.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

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.

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

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

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.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Time takes away the grief of men.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

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

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.