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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


How sweetly you do minister to love, That know love's grief by his complexion!
William Shakespeare
Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing


Each to his grief, each to his loneliness and fidgety revenge.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Boy Breaking Glass


As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away--
Emily Dickinson
As imperceptibly as Grief


No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed


And grief stirs, and the deft Heart lies impotent.
Philip Larkin
"If grief could burn out."


Grief thief of time crawls off....
Dylan Thomas
"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