Quotes and Sayings About Grief
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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Where but in the very ***** of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
-- A. R. Ammons -
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
-- Abraham Verghese -
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Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life-but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
-- Adam Rapp -
Death is a door life opens.
-- Adela Rogers St. JohnsSource : Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.26
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See how time makes all grief decay.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218
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Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
-- Adrienne Rich -
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
-- Aeschylus -
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
-- Agnes Repplier -
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.
-- Aime CesaireSource : "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.
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I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
-- Al Capone -
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I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.
-- Alan Davies -
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
-- Albert Camus -
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
-- Alcaeus -
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."
-- Alexander MacLaren -
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
-- Alexander Pope -
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
-- Alexander Pope -
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
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You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
-- Alexandre Dumas