grief Quotes

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.