Quotes about grief
grief heart stupidity
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. Sri Aurobindo
grief differences mourning
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. Roger Rosenblatt
grief attachment pay
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments... Thomas Lynch
grief pay want
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
grief men joy
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. Robert E. Lee
grief order people
President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. Robert Fisk
grief silent
The greatest griefs are silent. Wally Lamb
grief passion men
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious. Wassily Kandinsky
grief secret calamity
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. Voltaire
grief men ideas
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
grief stronger world
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. William Ralph Inge
grief dark night
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. William C. Bryant
grief joy pleasure
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. Wilhelm von Humboldt
grief sadness wind
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.
grief joy sorrow
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. Walter Scott
grief writing stories
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed. Winifred Holtby
grief empires watches
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. Winston Churchill
grief sadness sentimentality
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs
grief loss way
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. William Wycherley
grief school home
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. William Shatner
grief men hair
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger. William McFee
grief heart home
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation. William McKinley
grief house muse
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. Sappho
grief sorrow would-be
There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. William Faulkner
grief men causes
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
grief joy cabins
The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin. Yuri Gagarin
grief sadness taste
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. William Hazlitt
grief littles bears
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
grief world doe
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. Wendell Berry
grief taxes forethought
Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
grief believe forever
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
grief blessing men
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
grief worry grace
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.