3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.