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My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul


William Shakespeare

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RALPH WALDO TRINE Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It...
FRANCIS WELLER My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies th...
ROBERT JENSEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that tre...
ARTHUR BENNETT Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
JACQUELINE CAREY Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
ADRIENNE RICH It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I ...
LADY GREGORY Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration...
NEENA VERMA In all the silent manliness of grief.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER "Music of the heart can sooth a grief stricken soul" ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born
MARGARET WIDDEMER Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I sometimes find it half a sin,
To put to words the grief i feel,
For words like nature,ha...
ALFRED TENNYSON Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA ...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we...
MICHELLE MORAN A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first le...
LLOYD ALEXANDER And last, the crown of a' my grief.
JOHN BUNYAN Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5

I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words t...
ALFRED TENNYSON Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
OVID I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to g...
CHRISTINA RASMUSSEN O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Time possesses emotional potency. For persons whom suffer from of bereavement, time possesses a heal...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in ...
PLATO All things grow with time -- except grief.
YIDDISH PROVERB All things grow with time - except grief.
PROVERB Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.
ALISON BECHDEL This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains...
ISAAC MAYER WISE It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a p...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it i...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.

-Engraved on the monument Cl...
LORRAINE HEATH Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't m...
C. S. LEWIS I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Deep within my soul lies a great light.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
GERRY ADAMS But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
ALANIS MORISSETTE [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five...
REBECCA MCNUTT We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...
NICOLE KRAUSS The grief they have experienced has made them more empathetic to the grief of others,
BILL DOYLE Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver ...
PAT CONROY The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itse...
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JAMES SHAPIRO Tears are the silent language of grief.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Tears are the silent language of grief.
VOLTAIRE Tears are the silent language of grief
VOLTAIRE Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
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EMERY LORD We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge.
LIDIA YUKNAVITCH Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...
J.K. ROWLING Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don&#...
C. S. LEWIS Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

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DAVID MITCHELL Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the...
ROBERT ELDRIDGE WILLMOTT Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the...
ROBERT ELDRIDGE WILLMOTT Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!
LATOYA ALSTON The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
MENANDER You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of...
KATE MCGAHAN At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They'...
PAUL LYNDE I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an ab...
C.S. LEWIS And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions...
ROBERT BURTON When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve ev...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls...
GEORGE ELIOT If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then wha...
MICHAEL LEUNIG In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief
AFRICAN PROVERB Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Grieving is an expression of gratitude, and that expression doesn't have to be rushed.
CAROLYN WELLS Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel g...
PHILIP K. DICK Patch grief with proverbs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Patch grief with proverbs
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All of this support to us has helped us along in our grief.
KATHY BROWN

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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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