Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Grief

• Sorrow makes us all children again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grief, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

• There are some men above grief and some men below it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.139, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Evil, Torment

• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

• What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Evil, Torment

• The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Taught, Shallow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• Behold the Sea,
  The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
  Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
  Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
  Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
  Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
  Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
  And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
  Giving a hint of that which changes not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Sweet, Strong

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.241, Delphi Classics

• If with love thy heart has burned;
  If thy love is unreturned;
  Hide thy grief within thy breast,
  Though it tear thee unexpressed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Heart, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

• There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

• Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Rain, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

• I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Grief, Grieving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.309, Modern Library

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