Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.
The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
He who is resolute conquers grief.
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
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