More quotations tagged with “grief”
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.
—Sophocles
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
—Sophocles
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
—Samuel Johnson
The only cure for grief is action.
—Homer
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
—George Henry Lewes