Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

Bill Watterson

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

We are grieving and sympathizing with the rest of the world. As for our investor services, they are open and functioning, and requests will be processed as of the next market.

Gordon Strachan

We are grieving about this result but we should also be thinking about Chris. I hope he'll be back soon.

William Shakespeare

Tears water our growth.

Franz Grillparzer

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

David Foster Wallace

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

Angelina Jolie

I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor.. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.

Anne Perry

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

Anne Rice

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

Ambrose Bierce

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

Alice Hoffman

In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

Clare Bowen

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Billy Graham

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

William Shakespeare

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

Barbara Lee

Like the nation, I'm grieving and searching, in mourning, angry, trying to sort through all my feelings. I think everyone is doing that.

Betty Smith

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

Bennie Thompson

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

Charlotte Rampling

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

William Shakespeare

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

Andy Reid

The league has been notified by the players' union that they will be grieving our right to take that action, therefore there is nothing more that I can say at this point.

Joan Rivers

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

Gayle Forman

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Khalil Gibran

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Lisel Mueller

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

Lord Byron

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

Orison Swett Marden

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Henry Ward Beecher

Now comes the mystery.