GRIEF QUOTES II

quotations about grief

Whatever sorrow thy young heart have found,
Open it well, this ever-sacred wound
Dealt by dark angels--give thy soul relief.
Naught makes us nobler than a noble grief.

EMMA LAZARUS

"Muse"

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as if grief could be lessened by baldness.

CICERO

Tusculan Disputations

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To me, and to the state of my great grief,
Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrow sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King John

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Ye, O ye
Shall grieve, and ye shall grieve, and ye shall grieve.
Your Life shall bend and o'er his shuttle toil,
A weaver weaving at the loom of grief.

SIDNEY LANIER

"The Jacquerie: A Fragment"


It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Secret Life of Bees

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Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

JOAN DIDION

The Year of Magical Thinking

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It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

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Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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

XENOPHON

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

RUMI

attributed, The Philosophy Book

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Oh, what grief not to have
grief, and to spend your life
on the colorless grass
of the undecided path!

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

"Crossroads"

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Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk
With candle-wafters; bring him yet to me,
And I of him will gather patience.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Much Ado About Nothing

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Grief never mended no broken bones.

CHARLES DICKENS

Sketches by Boz

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Joys as winged dreams fly fast,
Why should sadness longer last?
Grief is but a wound to woe;
Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

JOHN FLETCHER

The Queen of Corinth

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Grief does not change you.... It reveals you.

JOHN GREEN

The Fault in Our Stars

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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Brothers Karamazov

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Perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

SARAH WATERS

The Little Stranger


For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Hoplon Krisis

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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness, while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles,", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

SUNSHINE O'DONNELL

Open Me