Quotes of Grieve - somelinesforyou

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ”

- Nathan Hale

“ One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ The only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ”

- Michael Curtiz

“ Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards. ”

- Kate Winslet

“ To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense. ”

- Aeschylus

“ It is said that the wounded deer sheds tears; but it belongs to man only, to "weep with them that weep," and by sympathy to divide another's sorrows, and double another's joys. ”

- Thomas Guthrie

“ The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows. ”

- Henry Giles

“ Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ”

- David Grayson

“ O my youth abandonedLike a withered garlandHere comes the seasonOf regret and reason. ”

- Guillaume Apollinaire

“ If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ”

- Arthur Christopher Benson

“ Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had? ”

- Unknown

“ This is very regrettable. ”

- Colin Powell

“ It is a great pity we had only one bottle not enough to revive that proof of the afterlife, though enough to revive some gentle regrets. ”

- Roger Scruton

“ Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well — That is light grieving! ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do. ”

- Joe Karbo

“ Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. - King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. ”

- John Fletcher

“ In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. ”

- John Calhoun

“ But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space. ”

- John Donne

“ But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. ”

- Bible

“ He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part. ”

- Richard Barnfield

“ Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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