Articles and Words about grief

• Grief makes one hour ten. –William Shakespeare
• If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. –Moliere
• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. –Ovid
• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. –Ovid
• Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. –Anonymous
• In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. –Simone Weil
• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. –Henry Ford
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. –Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. –David Searls
• While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. –John Taylor
• A heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. –William Shakespeare
• After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. –Mason Cooley
• Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.  ~From a headstone in Ireland

• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.  ~Kahlil Gibran
• It’s so curious:  one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief.  But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.  ~Colette
• Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you.  If they speak, you break down.  ~Bede Jarrett
• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.  You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.  ~Samuel Johnson
• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.  ~William Shakespeare
• Tears are the silent language of grief

Quotes about grief from famous authors and from the bible. I am currently doing up a post that has poems about grief and loss, and other sympathy poems, that are special and meaningful.

God Bless and take care

Grief