Grief Quotes

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.

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

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.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

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.

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

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.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

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.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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