Griefs Quotes · Page 2

Great griefs medicine the less.

— William Shakespeare

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

— Sophocles

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

— Francis Bacon

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

— Voltaire

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

— Tibullus

“wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”

— Anonymous

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

— Jose Marti

Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less

— Spanish Proverb

“All the life must be led with one, and also all the griefs and displeasures coming therewith patiently be taken and borne.”

— Sir Thomas More

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their…

— Victor Hugo

“I have long carried this load of griefs in the cage of my heart. Now I have given them to you. I…

— Qais Akbar Omar

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

— John Adams

“Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies. [An excerpt from…

— Huseyn Raza

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”

— Herodotus

“Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”

— Anonymous

“This communicating of a Man's Selfe to his Frend works two contrarie effects; for it re-doubleth Joys, and cutteth Griefs in halves.”

— Francis Bacon

Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance,…

— Pythagoras

“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep…

— May Sarton

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

— William Shakespeare

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a…

— Pietro Metastasio

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix…

— Herman Melville

It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer…

— Jack Kornfield

“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened,…

— Katherine Arden

“The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and…

— Sebastian Barry

“They saw him as he was, a full man whose griefs and solaces and talents ran together.”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

— Daniel Defoe

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

— Sophocles

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

— Blaise Pascal

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

— Seneca the Younger

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

— John Ford

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

— William Hazlitt

Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

— Anonymous

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

— Emile M. Cioran

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

— Francis Bacon

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

— Herodotus

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

— Seneca the Younger

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

— Lord Chesterfield