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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Tryon Edwards

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

Marcus T. Cicero

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

Lily Pincus

Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love.

Eileen Elias Freeman

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

William Faulkner

The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief

African Proverb

Tears are the silent language of grief

Voltaire

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nevell Bovee

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it

Turkish Proverb

Grief makes one hour ten

William Shakespeare

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble

Moliere

Every one can master a grief but he that has it

William Shakespeare

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Swedish Proverb

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Samuel Johnson

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Horace

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

William Shakespeare

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

Friedrich von Schiller

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

Emily Dickinson

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Alphonse de Lamartine

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