What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?
Grief Quotes
97 quotes about grief. Every quote shows where it comes from and how far to trust it.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,
When grief hath mates.
Some griefs show much of love;
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
That we two are asunder; let that grieve him;
Some griefs are medicinable.
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
But I have
That honourable grief lodg'd here which burns
Worse than tears drown.
"Oh, but," quoth she, "great griefe will not be tould,
And can more easily be thought than said."
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!