Grief Quote by Anonymous

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by…

— Anonymous

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Of all ill, Self-chosen sorrows are the worst to bear.”

— Sophocles

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain,…

— William Shakespeare

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”

— Dante Alighieri

“We draw our strength from the pains and despairs in which we have been forced to endure. But because of that strength, we shall…

— José N. Harris

“OFTEN WHEN OUR FALLING AND our wretchedness are shown to us, we are so ... greatly ashamed of ourselves that we scarcely know where…

— Lisa E. Dahill

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every…

— George Saunders

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley