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

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

Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less

Spanish Proverb

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief

William Shakespeare

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

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not

Xenophon

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured

Homer

Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.

Ann Kent

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

All things grow with time - except grief.

Proverb

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The cure for grief is motion.

Elbert Hubbard

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Joseph Roux

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 the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

William Shakespeare

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Marcus Aurelius

Grief is itself a med'cine.

William Cowper

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Seneca

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