Grief Quotes

• Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Grief
  • Wealth
  • Cries

• Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

  

  Candy Lightner
  • Feelings
  • Persons
  • Grieving

• The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

  

  Candy Lightner
  • Grief

• To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Opportunity
  • Feels
  • Shadow

• Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • Death
  • Heaven

• He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Instrument
  • Vengeance
  • No Reason

• Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Grief
  • Tied

• No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Man
  • Grief
  • Ancestors

• Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Grief
  • Readers
  • Adventures

• Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Grief
  • Loves
  • Grave

• For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Grief
  • Leisure

• It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sweet
  • Tears
  • Sorrow

• I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Grief

• The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

  

  Andrew Taylor
  • Children
  • Belief
  • Grief

• Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fear
  • Grief
  • Yield

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

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Great
  • Grief

• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Child
  • Grief
  • Loose

• The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

  

  Herodotus
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Human

• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Light
  • Speak
  • Sorrow

• Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

  

  George Eliot
  • Grief
  • Love Is
  • Anguish

• There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

  

  Sappho
  • House
  • Grief
  • Muse

• Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Death
  • End
  • Cause

• The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Sorrow

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