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Grief Quotes by George Eliot
- Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -…
- Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of…
- We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
- She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her…
- Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the…
More Grief Quotes
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
- There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
- Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? — William Blake
- Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan
- To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus
- In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. — William S. Burroughs
- For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a… — Lord Byron