Quotes about Grief from my Sister
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--poet
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 --philosopher
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
John Cheever --writer
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ,ILLINOIS
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 =WRITER
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh --AUTHOR
Grief is a process, not a state.
Anne Grant--POET
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams --ACTRESS
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II --Diana's mother in law
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya -- Philosopher
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 -- Editor
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Moliere -- playwright
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Horace -- poet
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -- Statesman
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell -- poet
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Euripedes -- Dramatist
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert -- Composer
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille -- playwright
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost -- poet
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy -- author
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer -- Journalist
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid -- Poet
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
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
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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