Grief Quote by Abby May Alcott Download Open image “Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?” — Abby May Alcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grief Selfish Selfishness Sorrow
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering, we are… — Alan D. Wolfelt Copy Share Image
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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