Grief Quotes

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friend, Healing, Confusion

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

Love, Power, Deep

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

Care, Joy, Value

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran

God, Knowledge, Person

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya

Family, Fear, Happy

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda

Future, Mistakes, Mind

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost

Politics, Poetry, Grievance

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

Silent, Language, Tears

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya

Life, Die, Moment

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust

Happiness, Mind, Body

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

Great, Pain, Joy

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Fact, Act, Wants

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Happiness, Joy

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Someone, Nothing, Fresh

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake

Another, Sorrow, Seek

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, End, Put

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

Men, Sad, Makes

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Made, Hair, Less

Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II

Love, Pay, Price

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Pain, Lonely

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Alone, Everyone, Burden

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Agony, Blunder

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli

Society, Him, Keep

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

Greatest, Past, Nothing

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell

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