It isn't enough for your heart to break
because everybody's heart is broken now.
?Allen Ginsberg
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment,
in which each feels that the other is feeling
something, having once existed,
its effect is not to be done away with.
?George Eliot
I hated her now with a hatred
more fatal than indifference because
it was the other side of love.
?J. August Strindberg
Nothing ends nicely,
that's why it ends.
?Tom Cruise
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens
greatly, whatever the comforters say, and
suffering does not ennoble, though it may
occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity
of manner to the suffering frame.
?Antonia S. Byatt
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
?Pierre Corneille
She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
?George Eliot
When the heart grieves over what is has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
?Sufi Epigram
In private grief with careless scorn.
In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
?Grannville
The only cure for grief is action.
?George Henry Lewis
Well has it been said that there is no grief
like the grief which does not speak.
?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow is the great idealizer.
?James Russell Lowell
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
?James Martineau
Since grief only aggravates your
loss, grieve not for what is past.
?Walker Percy
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.
?Seneca
What right have I to grieve,
who have not ceased to wonder?
?Henry David Thoreau
Those who are faithful know only the
trivial side of love: it is the faithless
who know love's tragedies.
?Oscar Wilde
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
?John Donne
