Grief Quote by Paulo Coelho

“But with all their mocking they had only hardened his resolve. And the odd thing was, they took a perverse pleasure in it, as…

— Brenda Rickman Vantrease

“Well," he said, "don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest passions and…

— Gustave Flaubert

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“In the ferment of our civil societies, from which the guardian angels seem to depart, we see many every moment sliding at the brink.…

— Anonymous

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?”

— Oscar Wilde

“I am not tormented, Fern responded. I am... diminished. I have always believed that your soul grows when you do something that is good…

— Jan Siegel

“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused…

— Ayn Rand

“He carried more grief than she could imagine, yet lived life with such joy it spread to everyone around him. Despite that grief. Despite…

— Julie E. Czerneda

“He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying down of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy