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No one is exempt from grief.

Gregory Maguire

Grief is the price we pay for love

Elizabeth II

Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead

Perses of Thebes

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

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

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

Diphilus

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief Is only a shadow When compared with the pain Of never risking love.

Hilary Stanton Zunin

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind

Marcel Proust

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Euripides

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

William Shakespeare

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean De La Bruyere

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Alphonse De Lamartine

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.

Jean Paul Richter

Only in return for death, destruction and grief as gifts can we see the paradise of independence.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

There is a solemn luxury in grief

William Mason

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen

Pliny the Younger

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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