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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Seneca

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Samuel Johnson

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Francesco Petrarch

You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

William Shakespeare

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

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Seneca

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

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

E.M. Cioran

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

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Antonio Porchia

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

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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