quotations about grief
How long shall I harbor sorrow in my soul, grief in my heart day after day? Look, answer me, O Lord, my God!
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Psalms 13:3-4
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Clockwork Prince
Small leisure have the poor for grief.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
"The Witch's Daughter"
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud: For grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King John
Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER
The Iliad
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
MELINA MARCHETTA
On the Jellicoe Road
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.
ARUNDHATI ROY
The God of Small Things
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
PLUTARCH
"Consolatio Ad Uxorem"
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Adonais
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
DEAN KOONTZ
Forever Odd
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Rex
The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight:
I dare not be tear-blinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:
But my grief will never go.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
Dragonsinger
If my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?
OSAMU DAZAI
No Longer Human
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
C. S. LEWIS
letter to Sir Henry Willink, December 3, 1959
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
Memoirs of a Geisha
Grief has got no brother, sister or lover.
Grief finds friendship elsewhere. Grief, in the darkened
hours and hours before light flicks in one window
holds grief, a mirror.
MARILYN HACKER
"Grief", A Stranger's Mirror
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry VI, Part III
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All the Pretty Horses