Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Horace
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
John Adams
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how
James Russell Lowell
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 Bishop
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
George Eliot
All things grow with time - except grief.
Proverb
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief
Proverb
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Horace
Grief is a species of idleness.
Samuel Johnson
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
Marcel Proust
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it
Bible
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
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.
Dr Samuel Johnson