(384 quotes found)
“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
Robert Frost
“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.”
William Faulkner
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it”
William Shakespeare
“Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows”
“Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear”
Joan Rivers
“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
Ovid
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What's gone and what's past help should be past grief”
“The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief”