Grief has its time. [ Johnson ]

Weep I cannot;
But my heart bleeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief makes one hour ten. [ Rich. II ]

New grief awakens the old. [ Proverb ]

Patch grief with proverbs. [ William Shakespeare ]

No grief reaches the dead. [ Sallust ]

Grief divided is made lighter. [ Proverb ]

Great griefs medicine the less. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. [ Bovee ]

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. [ William Shakespeare ]

A plague of sighing and grief!
It blows a man up like a bladder. [ William Shakespeare ]

Youth holds no society with grief. [ Euripides ]

He who is resolute conquers grief. [ Goethe ]

There is a solemn luxury in grief. [ Wm. Mason ]

Grief is crowned with consolation. [ William Shakespeare ]

In rising sighs and falling tears. [ Addison ]

The only cure for grief is action. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

Grief pent up will burst the heart. [ Proverb ]

Good is that darkening of our lives.
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load.
Which none but God can lighten. [ Frederick William Faber ]

Since grief but aggravates thy loss,
Grieve not for what is past. [ Percy ]

Benign restorer of the soul!
Who ever fly'st to bring relief.
When first we feel the sure control,
Of love or pity, joy or grief. [ Rogers ]

Grief alone can teach us what is man. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The indulgence in grief is a blunder. [ Beaconsfield ]

Grief is a tattered tent
Where through God's light doth shine. [ Lucy Larcom ]

To touch a sore; to renew one's grief. [ Ter ]

Whither goest, grief? Where I am wont. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Oh! call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and bee -
Where is my brother gone? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The withered frame, the ruined mind.
The wreck by passion left behind,
A shrivelled scroll, a scattered leaf,
Seared by the autumn blast of grief! [ Byron ]

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds. [ Lamartine ]

Tears are the silent language of grief. [ Voltaire ]

He tames grief that fetters it in rhyme. [ Donne ]

Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys,
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. [ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ]

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind. [ Lucrece ]

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [ Martial ]

Time and thought tame the greatest grief. [ Proverb ]

Grief boundeth where it falls,
Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. [ Rich. II ]

Some weep in perfect justice to the dead.
As conscious all their love is in arrear. [ Young ]

Griefs assured are felt before they come. [ Dryden ]

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief.
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison and of plague. [ Armstrong ]

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

The glory dies not, and the grief is past. [ Brydges ]

You see me here, - a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both! [ William Shakespeare ]

To grief there is a limit; not so to fear. [ Bacon ]

None can cure their harms by wailing them. [ William Shakespeare ]

He has exhausted at last the cup of grief. [ Cicero ]

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow.
Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. [ Auerbach ]

Where there is no honour there is no grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The heart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep;
Thus runs the world away. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief best is pleased with grief's society. [ Shakespeare ]

A heavier task could not have been imposed,
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. [ William Shakespeare ]

No future hour can rend my heart like this,
Save that which breaks it. [ Maturin ]

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul. [ Roscommon ]

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were!
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:
O, if I could, what grief should I forget! [ William Shakespeare ]

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief. [ Shelley ]

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief should be
Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate,
Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free. [ Aubrey de Vere (the younger) ]

To persevere
In obstinate condolement, is a course
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

If folly were grief, every house would weep. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. [ Philemon ]

What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. [ Dryden ]

Sudden joy kills sooner than excessive grief. [ Proverb ]

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. [ Cicero ]

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended. [ William Shakespeare ]

Upon her face there was the tint of grief,
The settled shadow of an inward strife,
And an unquiet drooping of the eye.
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. [ Byron ]

They truly mourn that mourn without a witness. [ Byron ]

In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace.
And sorrow seems acquainted with that face. [ Ickell ]

Lean abstinence, pale grief, and haggard care,
The dire attendants of forlorn despair. [ Pattison ]

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure. [ Congreve ]

Some Grief shows much of Love;
But much of Grief shows still some want of Wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. [ Bailey ]

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. [ William Shakespeare ]

That grief is light which is capable of counsel. [ Proverb ]

To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2 ]

He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Grief finds some ease by him that like doth bear. [ Spenser ]

There is a sort of pleasure in indulging of grief. [ Proverb ]

He that talks much of his happiness summons grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again,
Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain. [ Dayton ]

Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb. [ Seneca ]

Gold, when present, causes fear; when absent, grief. [ Proverb ]

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. [ Byron ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Like the lily,
That once was mistress of the field, and flourished,
I'll hang my head, and perish. [ William Shakespeare ]

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. [ Crashaw ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

Grief counts the seconds: happiness forgets the hours. [ De Finod ]

Grief that gives way to verses is not very lamentable. [ Proverb ]

A malady preys on my heart that medicine cannot reach. [ Maturin ]

Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break. [ Tennyson ]

He gave a deep sigh; I saw the iron enter into his soul. [ Sterne ]

The flood of grief decreaseth when it can swell no longer. [ Bacon ]

Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Riches are got with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. [ Proverb ]

If you would know secrets, look for them in grief or pleasure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. [ W. Hauff ]

Woman's grief is like a summer's shower - short as it is violent. [ Joubert ]

A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. [ Locke ]

Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint (lost) wi' grief. [ Scotch Proverb ]

As night succeeds the day, so do joy and grief succeed each other. [ Sophocles ]

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

A real grief I never can find till thou provest perjured or unkind. [ Prior ]

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid.
Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. [ Horace Greeley ]

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. [ Joseph Roux ]

No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. [ Dante ]

The only thing that grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. [ Emerson ]

Trembling lips, tuned to such grief that they say bright words sadly. [ Sydney Dobell ]

He who grieves before it is necessary, grieves more than is necessary. [ Seneca ]

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. [ Dr. Watts ]

Why must we first weep before we can love so deep that our hearts ache. [ Richter ]

Alas! the breast that inly bleeds has nought to fear from outward blow. [ Byron ]

There is no bitterer grief than a happy remembrance in a day of sorrow. [ A. de Musset ]

Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. [ Barry Cornwall ]

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. [ Madame Swetchine ]

It will appear how impertinent that grief was which served no end of life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. [ Calderon ]

The night appears long to those who are overwhelmed with sorrow and grief. [ Apollodorus ]

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]

The grief that does not speak whispers the overfraught heart and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

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

In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. [ Bible ]

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy. [ William Shakespeare ]

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. [ Emerson ]

Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls.
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart. [ Young ]

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]

It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [ Cicero ]

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears - the one of grief, the other of deceit. [ Pythagoras ]

'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]

Grief has two forms of expression, laughter and tears; and tears are not the saddest. [ L. Blanc ]

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. [ Rivarol ]

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living. [ William Shakespeare ]

The gains of the wicked bring shortlived pleasure, but afterwards long continued grief. [ Antiphanes ]

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [ Louis XIV ]

The more tender our spirits are made by religion, the more ready we are to let in grief. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. [ William Shakespeare ]

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. [ Goethe ]

That eating canker grief, with wasteful spite, preys on the rosy bloom of youth and beauty. [ Rowe ]

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. [ Ovid ]

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. [ Hazlitt ]

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [ Metastasio ]

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. [ Balzac ]

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and the dividing of our grief. [ Cicero ]

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. [ Ben Jonson ]

There is so much of the glare and grief of life connected with the stage that it fills me with most solemn thoughts. [ Henry Giles ]

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. [ Addison ]

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. [ Jane Porter ]

Inexorable necessity has power over man; it has no dread of the immortals, who have houses in Olympus away from sad grief. [ Stoboeus ]

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. [ Amiel ]

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. [ Lamartine ]

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. [ Macaulay ]

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. [ Wycherley ]

There are moments of intense joy and grief, which every one has, at least, once in his life, that illuminate his character at once. [ Lavater ]

Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. [ William Shakespeare ]

O the things unseen, untold, undreamt of, which like shadows pass hourly over that mysterious world, a mind to ruin struck by grief! [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. [ Thomas Edwards ]

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. [ Dr. Johnson ]

We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the war eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude. [ William Mason ]

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [ Johnson ]

Verily, I swear, it 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. [ Shakespeare ]

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. [ L'Estrange ]

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more. [ Greville ]

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence. [ James Martineau ]

Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous. [ F. Schubert ]

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. [ Madame Swetchine ]

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]

Griefs are like the beings that endure them - the little ones are the most clamorous and noisy; those of older growth and greater magnitude are generally tranquil, and sometimes silent. [ Chatfield ]

He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down on his little handful of thorns. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure. [ Thackeray ]

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. [ Epictetus ]

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little Oxt the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish. [ George Eliot ]

Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness. Still, it does not wholly die. Like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it will suffice to renew its bloom. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

What is grief? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which virtue gives. [ Leopold Scheffer ]

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]

Of permanent griefs there are none, for they are but clouds. The swifter they move through the sky. the more follow after them; and even the immovable ones are absorbed by the other, and become smaller till they vanish. [ Richter ]

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting out its feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to new pleasures. [ Dr. Pulsford ]

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. [ Washington Irving ]

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]

Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. The proofs to which the people are submitted, as with individuals, are necessary then to draw them from their lethargy, to disclose their character. [ Fearon ]

I may grieve with the smart of an evil as soon as I feel it, but I will not smart with the grief of an evil as soon as I hear of it. My evil, when it Cometh, may make my grief too great; why, then, should my grief, before it comes, make my evil greater? [ Arthur Warwick ]

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities. [ De Quincey ]

Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. [ Thomas Hobbes ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]