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QUOTES ON GRIEF


It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex

Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

WILLIAM BLAKE, On Another's Sorrow

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

SOPHOCLES, Antigone

Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

CHARLES DICKENS, Oliver Twist

Forbear to trifle longer with thy grief,
Which, vulture-like, consumes thee in this den.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

In life there is not time to grieve long.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS, The Count of Monte Cristo

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