Quotes About Grief

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.