grief quotes

• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. (Robert Frost) [poetry/misfortune/politics]
• The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. (Robert Burns) [men/misfortune/pain/joy]
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. (Joseph Addison) [happiness/misfortune]
• As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [misfortune/misfortune]
• Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. (William Congreve) [misfortune/pleasure/leisure]
• Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. (Benjamin Disraeli) [misfortune/misfortune/life]
• She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. (George Eliot) [misfortune/thoughts]
• Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. (George Eliot) [life/misfortune/activity/worldly]
• The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [thing/misfortune]
• In all the silent manliness of grief. (Oliver Goldsmith) [misfortune]
• Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. (Napoleon Hill) [form/misfortune/defeat]
• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ( Horace) [misfortune]
• If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. ( Horace) [wish/misfortune]
• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime. (Victor Hugo) [misfortune/right/order/crime]
• There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes. (Victor Hugo) [life/misfortune]
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. (Washington Irving) [misfortune]
• Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James) [misfortune]
• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James) [misfortune]
• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. (Samuel Johnson) [misfortune/attempt/misfortune/willpower]
• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson) [misfortune/attempt]
• Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them. (Samuel Johnson) [misfortune]
• When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. (Ben Jonson) [misfortune/enemies/posterity]
• Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [misfortune/misfortune/speak]
• There is not grief that does not speak. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [misfortune/speak]
• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief. (Martin Luther) [misfortune]
• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. (William Somerset Maugham) [misfortune]
• We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. (Herman Melville) [death/misfortune/willpower]
• My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [life/misfortune]
• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. ( Ovid) [misfortune]
• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ( Plutarch) [measure/misfortune]
• The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. ( Seneca) [misfortune/more/misfortune/men]

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