Grief Quotes

• The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

  

  Egerton Brydges
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Glory

• Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Age
  • Night

• In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

  

  Eileen Simpson
  • Dead
  • Spirits
  • My Father

• Youth holds no society with grief.

  

  Euripides
  • Society
  • Grief
  • Youth

• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Age
  • Poor

• But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Passion

• 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

• Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Surprise
  • Weight

• Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Desire
  • Grief
  • Face

• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  

  William Morris
  • Heart
  • Moving
  • Memories

• 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

• Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Existence
  • Sorrow
  • Fairytale

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

  

  Sappho
  • House
  • Grief
  • Muse

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

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Grief
  • Wealth
  • Cries

• We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffering
  • Interests
  • Occasion

• 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

• 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

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

  

  William Faulkner
  • Man
  • Grief
  • Ancestors

• Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Grief
  • Contagious

• 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

• I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

  

  George Moses Horton
  • Parent
  • Behinds
  • Farewell

• 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

• Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Darkness
  • My Mother
  • My Friends

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

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Grief
  • Tied

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