| Author |
Quotes |
| Alphonse De Lamartine | Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. |
| C S Lewis | Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. |
| Cicero | It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. |
| David Searls | Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -David Searls. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- That is light grieving! |
| Euripides | Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. |
| George Henry Lewes | The only cure for grief is action. |
| George Herbert | Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| Henry Ford | Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. |
| Homer | Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. |
| Horatius Flaccus | What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? |
| J O Rourke | The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting. |
| Joseph Addison | Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? |
| Joseph Addison | There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. |
| O Anna Niemus | When we hear oxymoron we think that those who eat oxen become morons .. their brains occluded by animal fat .. cannot receive oxygen When we hear Oxfam we think famine.. that those who promote oxeating create famine. |
| Ovidius Naso | Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. |
| Richard Hengist Horne | On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more. |
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