#grief

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #grief




Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.


William Congreve


#haste #heels #leisure #married #pleasure

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.


Barry Cornwall


#grief #instruments #more #pity #speaks

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.


Jacqueline Carey


#sorrow #time #funny

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.


Alan Davies


#being #bit #get #go #grief

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.


Queen Elizabeth II


#chance #diana #expressing #gratitude #grief

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.


E. M. Forster


#grief #king #plot #queen #story

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.


Ron Fournier


#anger #attack #bush #confusion #days

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.


John Banville


#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#burnt #could #else #every #feeling

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.


Nigella Lawson


#always #around #go #grief #grieving