GRIEF

Related Subjects: Consolation, Death, Desolation, Despair, Despondency, Loss, Melancholy, Misery, Mourning, Regret, Sorrow, Sympathy, Tears, Woe

1. I think the slain Care little if they sleep or rise again;
   And we, the living, wherefore should we ache
   With counting all our lost ones?—AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon
   

2. 'Twill grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. Grief tires more than anything, and brings a deeper slumber.—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Trilby
   

4. One gives people in grief their own way.—MRS. GASKELL, Cranford
   

5. In all the silent manliness of grief.—GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
   

6. Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
   

7. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

8. Love hath no physic for a grief too deep.—ROBERT NATHAN, A Cedar Box
   

9. Because my grief seems quiet and apart,
   Think not for such a reason it is less.
   True sorrow makes a silence in the heart,
   Joy has its friends, but grief its loneliness.—ROBERT NATHAN, A Cedar Box
   

10. Was there love once? I have forgotten her.
    Was there grief once? grief yet is mine.—ROBERT NICHOLS, Fulfilment
    

11. Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.—MARCEL PROUST, The Past Recaptured
    

12. The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

13. A plague of sighing and grief!
    It blows a man up like a bladder.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

14. What private griefs they have, alas! I know not.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

15. Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
    Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
    Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
    Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
    Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

16. I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
    For grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

17. Every one can master a grief but he that has it.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

18. Patch grief with proverbs.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

19. Men
    Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
    Which they themselves not feel.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

20. My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet L