Quotations About / On: GRIEF

  • 41.
    How sweetly you do minister to love,
    That know love's grief by his complexion!
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 1, sc. 1, l. 312-3. Grief means pangs; the lover typically had a pale appearance (complexion).)
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  • 42.
    I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Experience," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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  • 43.
    Grief in the morning, washed away
    in coffee, crumbled to a dozen errands between
    busy fingers.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Lamentation.")
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  • 44.
    I have always fought for ideas—until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
    (Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), U.S. editor and memoirist. The Strange Necessity, part 1 (1969).)
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  • 45.
    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
    (C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), British author. A Grief Observed (1961). Opening words of Lewis's book of mourning for his dead wife.)
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  • 46.
    Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
    Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
    (William Congreve (1670-1729), British dramatist. Sharper, in The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc. 1 (1693). to which Setter replies, "Some by experience find those words misplaced: At leisure married, they repent in haste.")
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  • 47.
    Only to have a grief
    equal to all these tears!
    (Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. "Peeling Onions," Snaphots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963).)
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  • 48.
    Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc. 2, l. 28-9. Pretending he has a toothache in order to avoid confessing he is in love; "grief" means pain or anguish.)
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  • 49.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief.
    (Wendell Berry (b. 1934), U.S. poet. The Peace of Wild Things (l. 6-8). . . CP-Berry.)
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  • 50.
    What's gone and what's past help
    Should be past grief.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Paulina, in The Winter's Tale, act 3, sc. 2, l. 222-3. An elegant variation on the proverb, "never grieve for that you cannot help.")
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