Grieved Quotes

• There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Faults
  • Virtues
  • Grieved

• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Citizens
  • Dignity
  • Recognized

• The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Friend
  • Miss
  • Grieved

• I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Reality
  • Acknowledged
  • Grieved