Grief Quotes

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Elizabeth Gaskell
- Up
- Great
- Long
How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

Angelus Silesius
- Pain
- Grief

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

Alice Hegan Rice
- Grief
- Leaves
- Trace
The poet walked alone in a cold late rain,And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds;For his lover was dead, he never would love again.

Conrad Aiken
- Alone
- Cold
- Sea
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

Derek Walcott
- Life
- Mother
- Father
He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.

Nami Mun
- Ideas
- Grief
- Loyal
Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

Nicole Kidman
- Grief
- Lazy
- Vengeance
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.

H. L. Mencken
- Up
- Time
- Good