grief quotes

• Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ( Seneca) [misfortune]
• Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. ( Seneca) [fortune/misfortune/power]
• Patch grief with proverbs. (William Shakespeare) [misfortune/proverbs]
• Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words. (William Shakespeare) [misfortune/child/words]
• The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. (Frank Sinatra) [ugly/form/misfortune]
• Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [fortune/misfortune]
• We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. (Henry David Thoreau) [misfortune/misfortune/nature/right]
• Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (Mark Twain) [misfortune/take/care/value]
• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Simone Weil) [suffering/misfortune/think/day]
• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness. (Oscar Wilde) [misfortune]
• “And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.” (Fran Drescher) [remember/misfortune]
• “Susan Smith is psychotic. Brenda Martin has been ravaged by grief. She's self-punishing. She's loved in the community.” (Julianne Moore) [misfortune]
• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. (George Gordon Byron) [past/misfortune]
• This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. (Lionel Barrymore) [age/misfortune/honesty]
• Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. (Barton Booth) [rage/misfortune]
• I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. (Benjamin Netanyahu) [speak/nation/misfortune]
• Misfortune has taught us to read our lives in the opposite direction. (Milorad Pavic) [misfortune/direction]

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