(406 quotes found)
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
Ovid
“In this world, whose family is there without blemish? Who is free from sickness and grief? Who is forever happy?”
Chanakya
“Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows”
William Shakespeare
“Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”
Jim Bishop
“In much knowledge there is also much grief”
Queen Marie of Romania
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Wendell Berry
“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it”
“No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand”
Friedrich von Schiller
“I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop”
