grief Quotes

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

I dote on his very absence.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?