Quotes about Grief

“Patch grief with proverbs.”

“Sorrow is the great idealizer.”

“Time takes away the grief of men.”

“The only cure for grief is action.”

“In all the silent manliness of grief.”

“There is not grief that does not speak.”

“Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“All things grow with time -- except grief.”

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”

“Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

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

“What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?”

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

“No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.”

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

“Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”

“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”

“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”

“In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.”

“Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.”

“Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”

“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.”

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”

“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”

“No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.”