I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
Emily Dickinson
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
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief
William Shakespeare
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
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille
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
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