Grief Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

17 Grief quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s essays often turn inward, and his thoughts on grief are no exception—philosophical, yet intimately grounded. These 17 quotes reveal how he wrestled with mourning while still seeking the larger currents of nature and spirit.

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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“I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.”

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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

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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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“Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils…

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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and…

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs…

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From…

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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow…

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

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