Grief Quotes
30 quotations about Grief
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. [Psalms 30:5]
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
Time takes away the grief of men.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
The only cure for grief is action.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
There is not grief that does not speak.
Sorrow is the great idealizer.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
Grief is light that is capable of counsel.
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Authors on Grief
Bible
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jean De La Bruyere
William S. Burroughs
E. M. Cioran
Pierre Corneille
Benjamin Disraeli
Sufi Epigram
Desiderius Erasmus
Oliver Goldsmith
Grannville
Hebrew Proverb
Jewish Proverb
Samuel Johnson
C. S. Lewis
George Henry Lewis
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
James Martineau