- Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief,
- Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul
- From height to height, from star to shining star,
- Shall climb and claim blest immortality.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Immortality"
It does not require a flood of grief to drown a child's heart.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
In life there is not time to grieve long.
T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket), The Carnivorous Carnival
There is a kind of indignation excited in us when one likens our grief to his own. The soul is jealous of its experiences, and does not like pride to be humbled by the thought that they are common. For, though we know that the world groans and travails in pain, and has done so for ages, yet a groan heard by our ears is a very different thing from a groan uttered by our mouth. The sorrows of other men seem to us like clouds of rain that empty themselves in the distance, and whose long-travelling thunder comes to us mellowed and subdued; but our own troubles are like a storm bursting right overhead, and sending down its bolts upon us with direct plunge.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
Grief chants, or, if violent or sudden, its utterance is exactly like that of physical pain.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Joy and grief are things of great hazard and danger in the life of man: The one breaks the heart; the other intoxicates the head.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
If my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?
OSAMU DAZAI, No Longer Human
- Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
- But grief returns with the revolving year.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Adonais
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, All the Pretty Horses
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