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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. – Sophocles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy – Robert Burns	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire. – Honore' de Balzac	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppress, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
That grief is light which can take counsel. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sweet is a grief well ended. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. – Fernandez de Andrada	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given. – Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. – Joseph Brodsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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