(406 quotes found)
“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates”
Samuel Johnson
“Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured”
Homer
“Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.”
Seneca
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
George Eliot
“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
Leon Bloy
“Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.”
Chanakya
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not”
Xenophon
“What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?”
“No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.”
William Faulkner
“Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief,some joy Memories are made of this.”
Johnny Cash
