Quotes on Grief

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Author: Aeschylus

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Author: Mary Astell

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Author: William Blake

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

Author: Barton Booth

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Author: Christian Bovee

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Author: Lord Byron

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Author: William Congreve

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Author: Barry Cornwall

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Author: E. Forster

Grief is a process, not a state.

Author: Anne Grant

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Author: Lasse Hallstrom

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Author: Samuel Johnson

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Author: Nigella Lawson

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Author: Hugh Leonard

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Author: Henry Longfellow

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Author: James Lowell

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Author: James Martineau

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Author: Herman Melville

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Author: Moliere

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

Author: Gregory Nunn

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Author: Ovid

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Author: Walker Percy

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Author: Keanu Reeves

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Author: Lucius Seneca

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Author: Terence

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Author: Voltaire

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

Author: Paula Yates