Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Grief is the price we pay for love, so they say. The price is far too high.

Arrows you may dodge and fever you may antibody for, but mortal grief is a misfortune you cannot escape.

You can’t have real pain without real love. You can’t feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

My children and I were at her bedside as she slipped peacefully into eternity. As I held her hand and saw mortal life drain from her fingers, I confess I was overcome. Before I married her, she had been the girl of my dreams, to use the words of a song then popular. She was my dear companion for more than two-thirds of a century, my equal before the Lord, really my superior. And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

In life I know there’s lots of grief, but your love is my relief.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

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.

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.