An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON GRIEF
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Richard George Adams (1920-, British novelist, "Watership Down")
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
John Berger (1926-, British actor, critic)
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American writer)
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American writer)
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
Antonia S. Byatt (1936-, British writer, critic)
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974, British critic)
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684, French dramatist)
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)
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 (1819-1880, British novelist)
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
Sufi Epigram
Time takes away the grief of men.
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466-1536, Dutch humanist)
Time takes away the grief of men.
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466-1536, Dutch humanist)
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865, British novelist)
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 (1709-1784, British author)
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963, British academic, writer, Christian apologist)
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine (1790-1869, French poet, statesman, historian)
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine (1790-1869, French poet, statesman, historian)
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewis
There is not grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
Sorrow is the great idealizer.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor)
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
James Martineau
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir (1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74)
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971, American humorous poet)
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.
Gregory Nunn (1955-, American golfer)
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy (1916-1990, American novelist)
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911, American writer)
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Hebrew Proverb (Sayings of Hebrew origin)
All things grow with time -- except grief.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
The person who thinks about his own grief forgets about the grief of others.
Maltese Proverb
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966, American author)
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.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
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 (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Patch grief with proverbs.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Psalms 30:5
What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Grief is light that is capable of counsel.
Author Unknown
In private, grief with careless scorn. In public, seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Author Unknown
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Rebecca West (1892-1983, British author)
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