Grief Quote by Pearl S. Buck

I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

— Alice Adams

People who experience great happiness have also experienced great sorrow. They know the value of it and its importance.

— Anonymous

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…

— Abraham Lincoln

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like…

— Etty Hillesum

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

— Ruth Gordon

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to…

— Anne Holm

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones.…

— Elie Wiesel

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have to accept people, who cause pain as mere actors playing their role in my drama of life. From the time this understanding…

— Chanda Kaushik

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

— Marie Brennan