Best Griefs Sayings
111 Griefs quotes by 77 unique authors
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And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
— William Shakespeare
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If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
— William Shakespeare
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
— Samuel Johnson
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Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.
— Tibullus
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There are griefs which grow with years.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,…
— William Osler
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God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that…
— Emmylou Harris
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
— Blaise Pascal
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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not,…
— Lord Byron
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Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
— Thomas Fuller
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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
— Euripides
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
— Homer
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And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is…
— Thrity Umrigar
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It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a…
— Bette Greene
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
— Daniel Defoe
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Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we…
— Megan Hart
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In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs…
— Dylan Thomas
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Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have…
— Paulo Coelho
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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;…
— Victor Hugo
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death…
— Ben Jonson
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