Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead
Perses of Thebes
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
Francesco Petrarch
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the bestî
Benjamin Franklin
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Seneca
That grief is light which can take counsel.
Seneca
Grief is itself a med'cine.
William Cowper
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
Marcus Aurelius
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
William Shakespeare
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
Benjamin Disraeli
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
Joseph Roux