Sophie Swetchine Quotes about Grief

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In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

Sophie Swetchine

Grief, Winter, Youth

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

Sophie Swetchine

Grief, Sorrow, Ifs

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

Sophie Swetchine

Grief, Self, Resignation

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 511), 1895.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

Sophie Swetchine

Grief, Humility, Pride

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Sophie Swetchine

Grief, Joy, Veils

The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

Sophie Swetchine

God, Christian, Grief