Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Grief must be shared to be endured.
A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
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Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.