Grief Quotes
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
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
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
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
