Grief Quotes

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

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.

A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief - so how fear?

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed, as in his fall.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Grief makes one hour ten.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief.

For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.