“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”
Grief http://www.webterrace.com/browning/Grief.htm, l. 1 (1844).
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning 88
English poet, author 1806–1861Related quotes
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
Variant: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Source: The Wild Palms
“You have never, I think, known real Grief”
Letter to Evelyn Waugh (1 January 1954)
Context: You have never, I think, known real Grief — panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives — you and me particularly. I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do. You have faith and mysticism — intense inner interests — a diverting, virile mind — gusto for vengeance and destruction if necessary, a fancy — a gospel.
What you can't imagine is a creature with a certain iridescent aura and nothing within but a beating frightened heart built round and for Duff... For two days I am quite alone — in these empty rooms with one thought one prayer — "let it end now" — an absurd feminine desire to die in the same way exactly as Duff. [ I have now a ] fearlessness of death — so let it come now before custom of living disinclines me for dying.
“And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.”
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
Context: Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover
The angry scar to which the world was blind:
And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.
Les douleurs muettes et stupides sont hors d'usage: on pleure, on récite, on répète, on est si touchée de la mort de son mari, qu'on n'en oublie pas la moindre circonstance.
Aphorism 79
Les Caractères (1688), Des Femmes
April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
musings of Princess Meredith; p. 41
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)