Grief Quote by Constantinos P. Cavafis

“Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is only to…

— George Eliot

“I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the…

— Anonymous

“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who…

— Jim Tully

“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading sloughs of…

— Wilfred Owen

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“So I shall practice sorrow in my love, stand in thin sun from old windows and grieve: inevitability of the grave, monotony of death,…

— Grace Butcher

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and…

— Lydia M. Child

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert