Quotes of Griefe - somelinesforyou

“ This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. ”

- Aristophanes

“ The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. ”

- Cicero

“ He that falls into sin is a man; who grieves at it, is a saint; who boasteth of it, is a devil. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us… ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ”

- Sufi Epigram

“ In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open… ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. ”

- Joseph Conrad
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