Griefs Quotes
111 quotes by 79 authors
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In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
— Samuel Daniel
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No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,…
— Hippocrates
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
— Wilfred Owen
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Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
— Euripides
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The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes…
— William Shakespeare
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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To…
— William Shakespeare
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There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.
— May Sarton
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Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride…
— Pablo Neruda
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
— Sophocles
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Great joys, like griefs, are silent.
— Shackerley Marmion
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
— Herodotus
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See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the…
— Matthew Henry
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My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
— Franz Schubert
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I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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