Grief Quotes by William Shakespeare

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

— William Shakespeare

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Great griefs medicine the less.

— William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

— William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow

— William Shakespeare

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue…

— William Shakespeare

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold…

— William Shakespeare

“The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are…

— William Shakespeare

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in…

— William Shakespeare

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . .…

— William Shakespeare

Grief makes one hour ten.

— William Shakespeare

Tears water our growth.

— William Shakespeare

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

— William Shakespeare

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful…

— William Shakespeare

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

— William Shakespeare

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

— William Shakespeare

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

— William Shakespeare

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my…

— William Shakespeare

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time…

— William Shakespeare

“The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.”

— William Shakespeare

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

— William Shakespeare

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

— William Shakespeare

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

— William Shakespeare