3,968 Quotes About Grief

  • Author Marcel Proust
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    Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

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  • Author Marge Piercy
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    I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

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  • Author Patanjali
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    There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

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  • Author Pericles
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    For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

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  • Author Pythagoras
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    There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

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  • Author Pythagoras
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    Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

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  • Author Thomas Pynchon
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    If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

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  • Author Aaron Rowand
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    They've already been voted on, so there's no way of stiffing them out of money for the playoff share. You can give them grief all you want, but their line is that they were perfect for the series, that two-thirds of an inning they threw.

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