“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”
Others on Grief
Dante
7 quotes“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
Jojo Moyes
3 quotes“It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2 quotes“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want...”
C.S. Lewis
2 quotes“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
Molière
2 quotes“If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.”
Seneca
2 quotes“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
Abraham Lincoln
1 quote“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
Albert Schweitzer
1 quote“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”
William Wordsworth
1 quote“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”
Alfred Tennyson
1 quote“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
Cormac McCarthy
1 quote“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
Emily Dickinson
1 quote“A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.”