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Grief Quotes by Victor Hugo
- It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
- Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
- Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
- Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
- Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred…
- Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad;…
- He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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