Quotations About Grief
Related: Mourning
Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Nicholas Breton
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
How sweetly you do minister to love, That know love's grief by his complexion!
William Shakespeare
Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing
Each to his grief, each to his loneliness and fidgety revenge.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Boy Breaking Glass
Boy Breaking Glass
As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away--
Emily Dickinson
As imperceptibly as Grief
As imperceptibly as Grief
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed
And grief stirs, and the deft Heart lies impotent.
Philip Larkin
"If grief could burn out."
"If grief could burn out."
Grief thief of time crawls off....
Dylan Thomas
"Grief thief of time."
"Grief thief of time."
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
Proverbs 14:13
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
Turkish proverb
A gain is no joy, nor a loss any grief.
Chinese Proverb
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William Burroughs
One false step can bring everlasting grief.
Chinese Proverb
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese proverb
A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother's grief.
Proverbs 10:1
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust