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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean De La Bruyere

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

Sufi Epigram

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

William Shakespeare

Patch grief with proverbs

William Shakespeare

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Alfred

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so

Thomas Mann

To bury grief plant a seed.

German Proverb

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

Alfred

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Unknown

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief

William Shakespeare

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

William Shakespeare

But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear

Greek proverb

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

Herman Melville

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it

Bible

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Benjamin Disraeli

Iëm sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes.

Jorja Fox

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him

Bible

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

William Shakespeare

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

Unknown

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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