Grief
Definition: Intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death.
Number of Quotes: 14
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
The best laid schemes of mice and men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Robert Burns
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there
too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
Life is very insistent; and it always seems to be so when friends sadly leave us.
Alec Guinness
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other
affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - thisaffliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the
stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a
sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
C. S. Lewis
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
Marge Piercy
You know it takes a year, a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing somebody. That's a true saying.
Annie Proulx
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
To me and to the state of my great grief
let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
that no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up:
King John
William Shakespeare
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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