Grief

(324 votes)   I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(202 votes)   Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine
1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(165 votes)   No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(142 votes)   There is not grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(141 votes)   Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.

Hebrew Proverbs
Sayings of Hebrew Origin

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(133 votes)   Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(125 votes)   All things grow with time -- except grief.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(124 votes)   Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(124 votes)   Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(117 votes)   There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(113 votes)   In all the silent manliness of grief.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(107 votes)   No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(99 votes)   What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(87 votes)   When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(87 votes)   Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website