Grief Quotes for Reflection & Healing | GloryQuotes

Healing Grief Quotes

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de la Bruyere

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Short Grief Quotes

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

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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Mary Douglas

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

Deep Grief Quotes

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

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.

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

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

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

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Herman Melville

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

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Tryon Edwards

More Grief Quotes

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

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Nigella Lawson

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Jim Elliot

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

William Faulkner

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Antonio Porchia

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Lasse Hallstrom

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Pliny the Elder

Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.

Doc Hastings

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Mary Astell

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Dean Inge

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Nigella Lawson

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

Morrie Schwartz

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

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Franz Schubert

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Terence

Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

Jim Ramstad

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Barry Cornwall

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.

John Millington Synge

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

John Woolman

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Margaret Anderson

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

Gideon Welles

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

George Crabbe

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

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Walker Percy

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Thomas Lynch

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Paul Engle

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

Jung Chang

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

Marie de France

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.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Ernst Toller

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

William Gibson

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Joe Hill

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

John Pearson

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Karl Shapiro

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Anne Grant

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