Grief Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 5

“My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence…

— William Shakespeare

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

— William Shakespeare

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

— William Shakespeare

“I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.”

— William Shakespeare

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants…

— William Shakespeare

But that a joy past joy calls out on me, It were a grief, so brief to partwith thee.

— William Shakespeare

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

— William Shakespeare

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.

— William Shakespeare

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

— William Shakespeare

“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.”

— William Shakespeare

“Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in…

— William Shakespeare

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth…

— William Shakespeare

“I do believe you think what now you speak, but what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave…

— William Shakespeare

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

— William Shakespeare