37 Metaphors for grief

Confide thy grief to me, And to thy cause this sword, this arm, This life, devoted be!" "Ah! noble knight, nor sword, nor arm I need, right well I wot, But comfort for my sorrowing heart.

When we see him engaged in the Depth of his Afflictions, we are apt to comfort our selves, because we are sure he will find his Way out of them: and that his Grief, how great soever it may be at present, will soon terminate in Gladness.

My grief was a fearful reawakening of my love.

Grief and Weeping are indeed frequent Companions, but, I believe, never in their highest Excesses.

It would have seemed as though no other grief could be the portion of Ellen, but another sorrow was impending over her, which, while it lasted, was a source of distress inferior only to Herbert's death.

Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present preserves us, by the merciful disposition of providence, from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past.

But the gracious solace of tears seemed to be denied her, and her grief, like her anger, was a dull ache, longing, like that, to finish itself with a fierce paroxysm, but wanting its natural outlet.

And as grief is the greatest enemy of the object of the five senses, even so appeared before the Pandavas that unknown foe of theirs.

Grief thus became a pleasure, and it was a pleasure, be it added, which was not taken too sadly.

His memories of his father were not particularly tender ones, and his grief was only natural filial sentiment in its vaguest and lightest form.

121; 'Grief is a species of idleness,' iii. 136, n. 2. GUINEA.

Well, if grief Be gain, mine's doublefleeing thus the snare Of yon luxurious and unnerving down, And widowed from mine Eden.

"A grief to you would be a blow to Paris.

" For ten years Mrs. Adams seems to have lived a most happy life, either in Boston or Braintree, her greatest grief being the frequent absences of her husband on circuit.

When the heart is full, there seems some relief in pouring out the story of woe into a sympathetic ear; but when one is alone, with no human being to listen or sympathize, grief is a hundredfold greater.

Grief seems more like ashes than like fire; but as grief has been love once, so it may become love again.

Thy grief is natural, daughter, if some ill Hath fallen to-day.

He said that his great grief now was the lateness with which enlightenment had come, leaving him so little time to prepare his soul for death.

They owned, however, that they were in the wrong to think so, and for refusing the assistance that reason offered for their support, as well as future deliverance, confessing that grief was a most insignificant passion, as it looked upon things as without remedy, and having no hope of things to come; all which verified this noted proverb, In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

for the rest have care" Then to himself, "This grief is gall; That Mosby!I'll cast a silver ball!" "Ho!"

This done they all stood round a little while, awkwardly enough, as not knowing what to do; and then slipped away one by one, because grief is a thing that only women know how to handle, and they wanted to be back on the beach to get what might be from the wreck.

But thou hast trod A march of glory, which doth put to shame 315 These vain regrets; health suffers in thee, else Such grief for thee would be the weakest thought That ever harboured in the breast of man.

'All unnecessary grief is unwise,' iii. 136; 'Grief has its time,' iv.

My lady's grief, lest she should rue therefore, Is all the cause of grief within my breast.

When she put on Christ, she was "a new creature" She believed her first grief was almost a murmuring against heaven.

37 Metaphors for  grief