| "grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The only cure for grief is action." »George Henry Lewes |
| "That grief is light which can take counsel." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Sweet is a grief well ended." »Aeschylus |
| "It is light grief that can take counsel." »Anonymous |
| "Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way." »Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh |
| "Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief." »Publilius Syrus |
| "grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." »Mark Twain |
| "grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver." »Sophocles |
| "There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." »Aeschylus |
| "What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." »Euripides |
| "Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." »George Herbert |
| "Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation." »Vernon Howard |
| "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." »George Eliot |
| "Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me." »Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin |
| "For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." »Fernandez de Andrada |
| "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." »Joseph Addison |
| "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long." »Menander |
| "Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade." »Jim |
| "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear." »Joan Rivers |
| "'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow." »William Shakespeare |
| "The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy" »Robert Burns |
| "Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings." »Homer |
| "Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine |
| "People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
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