Quotes

Quotes about Grief

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Ambrose Bierce

I have always fought for ideasâuntil I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Margaret Anderson

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Francis Bible

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Joanna Baillie