Top 1200 Deep Grief Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

The Backstreet Boys posted a cover of our single 'Good Grief.' It was so cool, and they reached out to us, saying, 'When you're in town, come to the show.'

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.