Grief Sorrow Quotes
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While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The heart's smiles help wipe away the soul's tears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
— Seneca The Younger
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.
— Robin McKinley
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
— William Shakespeare
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
— Walter Wangerin Jr.
To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.
— Rebecca West
I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
— Ruth Gordon
A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It's what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.
— Colleen Hoover
Like young fern shootsmy child's fingers curled.
I did not expect,
in the fifth month, frost. — Lian Hearn
It never ends, the bruiseof being — Kevin Young
Sorrow can be a bully.
— Amy Waldman
Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
— Lydia Millet
Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.
— Kenyon Gambier
A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.
— Marty Rubin
Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.
— Flavia Weedn
The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
— William Shakespeare
Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
— Sophie Swetchine
Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.
— Grace Noll Crowell
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There is no space wider than that of grief ...
— Pablo Neruda
The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Just as when clouds are full they pour out rain, so when men are full of grief, they pour out tears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost.
— David Nicholls
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.
— William Davenant
Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.
— Angelica Hopes
He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she'd fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.
— Katherine McIntyre
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
— Roberto Bolano
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
— Oscar Wilde
Lincoln matured best in sorrow.
— Elton Trueblood
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
— Pearl S. Buck
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.
— Thomas Otway
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
— George Herbert
Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time.
— Sandra Toscano Huerta
grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As
— David Nicholls
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind ...
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
— C.S. Lewis
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
— Richard Bach
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.
— Dianna Hardy
Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.
— Epictetus
All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.
— Philip O Ceallaigh
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
— Meghan O'Rourke
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.
— Callimachus
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.
— William Shakespeare
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.
— Alice Adams
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
— William Shakespeare
Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with, some deep sorrow.
— Sylvia Plath
Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me
— J. Leigh Bralick
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.
— Dianna Hardy
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
— William Shakespeare
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
— Petrarch
Sorrow makes us all children again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
— Rachel L. Schade
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
— Cormac McCarthy
Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.
— John Cheever
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
— Sophocles
So much ice.She thumbed a drying tear away.
How much water can the weight of ice carry? — Dianna Hardy
Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.
— Germaine Greer
To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.
— Bell Hooks
God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
— Shannon L. Alder
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. — William Goffe
Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
— Horace Greeley
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
— William Faulkner
Grief lets you indulge in it, so that it can feed itself.
— Sreesha Divakaran
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
— Thomas Parsons
A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
— Elsie De Wolfe
Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.
— Mark W. Boyer
It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.
— Jocelyn Murray
Grief and sorrow; both are fervently shape your character.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann