Grief Quote by Oscar Wilde

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves…

— Oscar Wilde

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

— Oswald Chambers

“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”

— Oscar Wilde

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

— Alice Hegan Rice

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief…

— Leo Tolstoy

Why weep over heartache when the real sorrow lies in the delusion that love will last forever.

— Minassian

That sorrow is tragic and kills you exact, when love still alive and hope is dead.

— Senoraroy

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

— Meister Eckhart

“Sorrow is long when love has vanished underground.”

— Euripides

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of…

— Sophie Swetchine

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

— Paulo Coelho

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

— Mata Amritanandamayi