Lord Byron Quotes

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

Lord Byron

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• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

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

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Sane

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • You
  • Grief
  • Saying

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Grief

• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Grief

• Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Grief

• How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, 'If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.'

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Long
  • Grief

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Joy

• Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Alcohol

• The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

  

  William Plomer
  • Eye
  • Born
  • Surprise

• I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Person
  • Talking

• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Evil

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

  

  Lord Byron
  • Grief
  • Pleasures
  • Tear