Quote: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. [Psalms 30:5] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet
Quote: Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Author: Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer
Quote: In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Antonia S. Byatt 1936-, British Writer, Critic
Quote: No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream. Author: Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic
Quote: One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Author: Pierre Corneille 1606-1684, French Dramatist
Quote: Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. Author: Sufi Epigram
Quote: Time takes away the grief of men. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: In all the silent manliness of grief. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. Author: Grannville
Quote: Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Author: Alphonse De Lamartine 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian
Quote: No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: The only cure for grief is action. Author: George Henry Lewis
Quote: Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906-, American Author
Quote: There is not grief that does not speak. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Sorrow is the great idealizer. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us... Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. Author: James Martineau
Quote: Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. Author: Golda Meir 1898-1978, Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74
Quote: No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: Grief, and an estate, is joy understood, Author: Gregory Nunn 1955-, American Golfer
Quote: Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. Author: Walker Percy 1916-1990, American Novelist
Quote: Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1844-1911, American Writer
Quote: Grief is light that is capable of counsel. Author: Proverb
Quote: Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. Author: Hebrew Proverb Sayings of Hebrew Origin
Quote: All things grow with time -- except grief. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: 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. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Patch grief with proverbs. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. Author: Lillian Smith 1897-1966, American Author
Quote: The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. Author: J. M. Synge 1871-1909, Irish Poet, Dramatist
Quote: What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Author: Rebecca West 1892-1983, British Author