Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. William Shakespeare
  5. Grief

William Shakespeare Quotes about Grief

All William Shakespeare Quotes 4th Of July Abuse Acting Adventure Adversity Affection Age Aging Alcohol Ambition Anger Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Army Art Atheism Attitude Authority Autumn Balance Beauty Beer Being Yourself Belief Birth Blame Bliss Boat Bones Boredom Bravery Business Caring Challenges Change Chaos Character Charity Chastity Childhood Children Choices Christianity Christmas Church Communication Compassion Confidence Confusion Conscience Contentment Cooking Corruption Country Courage Courtship Creation Creativity Crime Cynicism Dad Dance Dancing Darkness Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Devil Dignity Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Eating Encouraging Envy Equality Eternity Ethics Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Fairness Faith Falling In Love Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Fear Of Death Feelings Fighting Flattery Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Fun Funeral Funny Future Generosity Genius Gentleness Giving Glory God Gold Goodbye Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greed Grief quotes Grieving Growth Guilt Halloween Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Hilarious History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Injury Innocence Insanity Insomnia Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jealousy Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Killing Kindness Kissing Knowledge Labor Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Listening Literature Losing Loss Love Loyalty Luck Lust Lying Madness Magic Marriage Memorial Day Memories Mercy Military Moderation Modesty Money Moon Morning Mortality Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Nature Navy Negotiation Obedience Obesity Offense Office Opportunity Pain Painting Parenting Passion Past Patience Peace Perfection Perseverance Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politics Positive Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preparation Pride Procrastination Prophet Prosperity Protest Purpose Quality Rage Rain Reading Reflection Religion Reputation Respect Retirement Revenge Revolution Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Royalty Running Sad Sadness Safety School Science Self Love Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sisterhood Skins Slavery Sleep Sloth Smile Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Speed Sports Spring Strength Study Stupidity Success Suffering Summer Swearing Sympathy Taxes Teaching Team Temperance Temptation Terror Thankfulness Theatre Tigers Time Time Management Trade Tragedy Travel True Love Trust Truth Twilight Tyranny Uncertainty Understanding Unrequited Love Victory Violence Virtue Vision Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Witchcraft Work Worship Writing Youth
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Believe, Musical

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare
Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief
1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Grief, Grieving
William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

Grief makes one hour ten.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Losing A Loved One, Grieving
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

Tears water our growth.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Grieving, Water

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Grief, Silence
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Grieving, Masters
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Humble, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.291, Cengage Learning EMEA

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

William Shakespeare
Sex, Women, Grief
William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, Sadness

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

William Shakespeare
Art, Grief, Moon
William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, Sleep
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.942

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Leaving, Mind
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.419

Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Grief, Loss
'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare
Positive, Grief, Loss
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Ifs
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.404

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

William Shakespeare
Grief, Yellow, Green
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Excess, Gains
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.250, Cengage Learning EMEA

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

William Shakespeare
Grief
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.704, Oxford University Press

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

William Shakespeare
Death, Grief, Enemy
William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.275

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

William Shakespeare
Time, Grief, Night
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press

Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Fairness, Ends
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1855). “The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author”, p.371

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Passion, Gallantry

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Persevere, Important Hamlet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

Patch grief with proverbs.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Patches
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

You May Also Like: