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

Benjamin Disraeli

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles

What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart.

John Adams

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.

Alan Ball

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Homer

I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Friedrich von Schiller

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

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Euripides

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings;Sole comforter to minds with grief opprest.

Sir William Drummond

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

Erich Fromm

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

Publilius Syrus

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

Euripides

He hasn?t shown any grief. His family has a place to stay, so we?re all right about that.

Dante Ross

Good grief, Charlie Brown.

Sarah Kendall

Not really, ... Good grief, not really.

William Mcbride

They're among the most obsessive in detail. It goes far beyond what you see even in his most accomplished works. You really see in this sense an outpouring of that grief, if not an attempt to alleviate it or escape from it.

Paul D'ambrosio

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

No one is exempt from grief.

Gregory Maguire

Grief is a process, not a state.

Anne Grant

They had some pin-point accuracy and good grief, that goal over Robert — nothing he could do.

Doyle Geddes

And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.

William Forrest Winter

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.

Honduran Proverb

After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief, but the separation of the living is an endless, unappeasable anxiety.

Tu Fu

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.

Du Fu

This is a constructive thing to do with anger and grief. Planting a tree or a garden is a way to acknowledge the frustration in a positive way.

Gorman Parrish

What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?

John Pearson

A girl I call my granddaughter was upset about the suicide death of her friend, and she needed someone to talk to. So I called the county for some grief counseling.

Jack Hurley

The only thing hard to take about him is the grief he's been giving us about England winning the Ashes in cricket.

Tim Sampson

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Jim Bishop

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Adelaide Anne Procter

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Fran Drescher

If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.

Bahya Ibn Paquda

Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau

A lot of the (participants) are creative people, so this is a good way for them to have an outlet for expressing their grief ? or their joy.

Jean Price

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James Russell Lowell

Families are going through a lot of grief, a lot of uncertainty.

Kathleen Rhodes

This was a hideous action and it caused great grief and frustration for so many people.

Brendan Mallon

I got a lot of (grief) for that, too. Trust me, I'm getting my share.

Tim Duncan

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

We kind of are disappointed that we're not going to be attending the grief support group, but we're not grieving anymore.

Daisy Judy

Our squad members are getting access to trauma and grief counselors. It's becoming a very difficult task.

Charles Hood

There is not a day that goes by that it doesn't cause me serious grief.

Rob Mitchell

I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief than not.

Matt Carle

There was no way I was fair-catching it. I'd catch too much grief from my teammates.

Tom Zbikowski

The impression from the audience standpoint is that she's crazy. She's never really faced her grief. She's never really owned it.

Rodger Smith

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J. D. Salinger

It was her way of dealing with the grief. She was really venting when I was just sobbing.

Marilyn Adams

It is our ultimate goal to hold UCI accountable for the clear harm and grief that it has caused our clients.

Mark Quigley

The grief they have experienced has made them more empathetic to the grief of others.

Bill Doyle

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Walker Percy

You are not prepared for what you are going to see because of the massive devastation and the chaos, and you are not prepared for the grief of those who might have lost everything.

Jack Stephens

This was an unbelievable tragedy for the entire family... his grief is immeasurable. There is no greater punishment than that.

David Roth

All of this support to us has helped us along in our grief.

Kathy Brown

I was going through a lot of things and when I found out that I was pregnant that added more grief, ... There was a lot of pressure, it was the first time, and I didn't know what to expect.

Stephanie Peterson

Grief is grief. It's always a little backwards when a young person dies, regardless of their age.

Donna Deeds

The No. 1 need now across the country is going to be grief counseling.

Larry L. King

The critics represent a minority of these families. There's different ways of expressing grief and one of the ways is through anger.

Thomas Johnson

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Barry Cornwall

And at the same time, what we really had to try and do was set aside our own grief to take care of those kids.

Bruce Stout

Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.

The Talmud

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Euripedes