Chief Joseph Quotes

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.