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Philosophy Quotes About Grief

Grief exposes what we valued. Philosophers of death, suffering, and consolation ask how to mourn without denial, and how suffering can clarify—or distort—our sense of the good.

23 quotations on grief

  1. It is worse to do injustice than to suffer it.
  2. Death is nothing to us: for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
  3. Pleasure is the beginning and end of the happy life — not the pleasures of profligates, but freedom from pain in the body and from disturbance in the soul.
  4. There are more things that frighten us than crush us, and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
  5. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
  6. Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
  7. If you are distressed by anything external, it is not the thing itself that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
  8. Therefore death is nothing to us, and does not concern us at all.
  9. To philosophize is to learn how to die.
  10. Depart then in peace; the one who releases you is also at peace.
  11. This very practice of philosophers is a release and separation of soul from body.
  12. From the very fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes among the flowers themselves.
  13. Before joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure are issued, that is called the Mean; when issued and all hit due measure, that is called Harmony.
  14. Contacts with the senses give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them.
  15. All life is suffering.
  16. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death.
  17. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
  18. Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as the same…
  19. There is no greater pain than to recall happy times in misery.
  20. Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti, give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go — endure them.
  21. Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
  22. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
  23. The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.

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