Quotes About Grief

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to an end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house

In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love

ALCESTIS Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley

Çekinme, hat?rlama ne kadar çok sevdiÄŸini ve nas?l doÄŸurduÄŸunu çocuklar?n?. Bugün, sadece bugün unut, sonra tutars?n yaslar?n?. ÖldürmüÅŸ de olsan çok sevmiÅŸtin onlar? ve mutsuz bir kad?ns?n ÅŸimdi.

Tanr?lar?n tan?kl???na baÅŸvuruyorum, çocuklar?m? öldürdüÄŸün yetmiyormuÅŸ gibi, onlara dokunmama ve cenazelerini kald?rmama da izin vermiyorsun. Ah, keÅŸke hiç doÄŸmasalard? ve hiç görmeseydim bu ÅŸekilde vahÅŸice öldürüldüklerini.

And this is a grief beyond the reality, if a man incurs blame for sins that are not his.

IPH. Thus much at least, does the wife of the unhappy man live? OR. She is no more. The son she brought forth, he slew her. IPH. O house all troubled! with what intent, then? [71] OR. Taking satisfaction on her for the death of his father. IPH. Alas! how well he executed an evil act of justice. [72] OR. But, though just, he hath not good fortune from the Gods.

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.

Do not revive a grief I had forgotten.

For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

Here my last love had died.

A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...

Here my last love died. There was nothing remarkable in the manner of its death.

Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.

Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never come back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusions, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

He read the message again. He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that the earliest and strongest of protections is gone?

Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty.

Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

Joel did not quite believe in picture actresses' grief. They have other preoccupations—they are beautiful rose-gold figures blown full of life by writers and directors, and after hours they sit around and talk in whispers and giggle innuendoes, and the ends of many adventures flow through them.