Grief Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
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.
Constance, King John William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister
What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author, critic
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Seneca (c. 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman
We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so.
Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist
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.
A. S. Byatt (b. 1936) British author
Sorrow, the great idealizer.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, editor
People in distress never think that you feel enough.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
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.
Seneca (c. 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Bible, Psalms
