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

Benjamin Disraeli
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles
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What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. -William Shakespeare
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart.

John Adams
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. -Christian Nevell Bovee
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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
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -Xenophon
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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
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Homer
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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
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The only cure for grief is action.

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

Friedrich von Schiller
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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
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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

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

C. S. Lewis
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Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. -Publilius Syrus
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

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

Dante Ross
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Good grief, Charlie Brown. -Sarah Kendall
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Not really, ... Good grief, not really.

William Mcbride
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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
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. -George Eliot
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No one is exempt from grief.

Gregory Maguire
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Grief is a process, not a state.

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