(406 quotes found)
“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”
John Adams
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul”
William Shakespeare
“The only cure for grief is action.”
G. H. Lewes
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
William Blake
“Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind”
Marcel Proust
“What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.”
Buddha
“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
Stefan Kanfer
