grief Quotes

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.