3,968 Quotes About Grief

  • Author Thomas Campion
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    All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

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  • Author Alan Davies
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    I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

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  • Author Alexandre Dumas
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    ...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

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  • Author Charles Darwin
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    ...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

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  • Author Charles Dickens
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    A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

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  • Author Charles Dickens
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    And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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  • Author Emily Dickinson
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    I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

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  • Author Emily Dickinson
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    The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

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