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• My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

  Isabel Allende

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Writing, Struggle, Moments, Happy

• One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Topics in Grief

• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Detest, Racialism, Loathsome, Feel

• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

  Horace

  Topics in Emotion, Grief

  Tags in Weep

• To touch a sore is to renew one’s grief.

  Terence

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Renew

• To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

  Tryon Edwards

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Contentment, Mitigate, Prosperity

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

  Walker Percy

  Topics in Grief, Past

  Tags in Grieve, Aggravates, Loss

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

  Xenophon

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Injury, Excess, Madness, Living

• We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

  Peter Akinola

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Zeal, Witnessed, Determined, Missionary

• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Grief, Humanity, Nature

  Tags in Calamity, Innumerable, Man

• Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

  William Adams

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Pray

• One joy shatters a hundred griefs.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Grief, Joy

• The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.

  Topics in African Proverbs, Grief

  Tags in Lies

• If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Grief, Society

  Tags in Gloomy, Stifled, Worse, Right, Himself, Looking

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Agony, Blunder, Best, Reality

• It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

  Chanakya

  Topics in Grief, Life

  Tags in Disgrace, Better, Loss, Cause

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Fear, Grief

• He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Topics in Grief, Joy

• 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

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Death And Dying

• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Grief