Grief Quotes

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister.

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author, critic.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Seneca (c.5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman.

We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so.

Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

A.S. Byatt (b.1936) British author.

Sorrow, the great idealizer.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Seneca (c.5-65) Roman Writer, philosopher, statesman.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Bible, Psalms.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

F.W. Robertson.

There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.

Dante.

Sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.

Tennyson.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom is hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but only sorrow can consecrate.

Horace Greeley.

Light grief’s are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.

Seneca.

Every one can master a grief but he that hath it.

Shakespeare.

No grief is so acute but that time ameliorates it.

Cicero.

Time is the great comforter of grief, but the agency by which it works is exhaustion.

L.E. Landon.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy of the living.

Shakespeare.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy, would appear to be objects of pity?

Metastasio.

Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls, or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.

Young.

Grief should be like joy, majestic, sedate, confirming, cleansing, equable, making free, strong to consume small troubles, to command great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end.

De Vere.

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Longfellow.

Some grief shows much of love; but much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Shakespeare.