Definition of Grief

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Definition of Grief

Grief

Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.

Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.

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Grief Quotations

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

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

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

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.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

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

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

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

Grief Translations

grief in Dutch is leed, verdriet, smart
grief in French is diuleur
grief in German is Gram, Kummer
grief in Italian is pena
grief in Latin is maeror meror, luctus
grief in Norwegian is sorg
grief in Spanish is pesar

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