William Shakespeare Quotes About Grieving

• 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.

• 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

• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Water

• 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]

• Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Grieving, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.549

• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Heart, Grieving

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Life and Death of King Richard II”, p.81

• 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

• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Clouds

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Laughing, Comedy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

• 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

• LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Husband, Niece

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby

• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Dust, Wife

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

• So may I, blind fortune leading me,
  Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
  And die with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Missing, Risk

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

• I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Grieving, Wish

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

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