Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
. . . it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex - and thence into total homosexuality.
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
It is grievous to be caught.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.
I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.