Best grief & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.”

Should Feelings Faces Evil Natural Grief Absence Moderation Undesirable

Author:Plutarch

“Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife; And fretting grief the enemy of life; All these and many evils more, haunt ire.”

Evil Grief Enemy Anger Murder Despite Bitter Knives Strife Wrath Mischief Bloodshed Fretting Rancor

Book:Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.”

Giving Two Care Evil Grief Blessing Mortals Thread Wretched Jars Zeus Spun

Author:Homer

“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”

Men Reason Eye Running Suffering Evil Wish Chance Grief Serious Fingers Affliction Irritation

Author:Plutarch

“We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?”

Knows Doe Death Evil Common Grief Liberty Enemy Poverty Support Storm Secure Sole Remedy Principal Sovereign Harbors Tempest

Book:Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

“There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.”

Evil Walks Grief Arise Observing Rhinoceros

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

Ifs Men Enough Character Pain Humanity Evil Literature Common Grief Virtue Conditions Subjects Honesty Integrity Sorrow Treatment Calamity Aggravation Pain And Sorrow Aggravating

Book:The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

Evil Grief Tears Sorrow Sad Rings Fellowship Criminal Mind Frodo Griefing Middle Earth Grief Loss Frodo Baggins Return Of The King Death Grief Grief And Death Lord Of The Ring Galadriel

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”

Stills Evil Grief Survived Torment

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.”

Men Looks Hate Dies Fighting Evil Can Do Loss Grief Greatness Tears Goes On Bears Disease Weakness Instinct Defeat Look Up Bitterness Recipes Evil Man

Author:Zane Grey

“It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.”

Ifs Stills Two Soul Earth Evil Enjoy Grief Wonder Creator Enjoyed Two Souls

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.”

Bigs Evil Grief Beast Terrified

Book:The Casual Vacancy

Source: The Casual Vacancy

“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

Mean Real Pain Passion Evil Grief Sensations Complaints Owing

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.”

Thinking Hands Young Evil Grief Tears Rain Calm

Book:The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

Source: The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

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