Great griefs medicine the less. [ William Shakespeare ]

All griefs with bread are less. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The envied have a brilliant fate;
Pity is given where griefs are great. [ Palladas ]

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]

Griefs assured are felt before they come. [ John Dryden ]

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

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

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. [ Proverb ]

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

What art thou, thou idol ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? [ William Shakespeare ]

Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are silent. [ Proverb ]

Neither griefs nor joys were ordered for secrecy. [ Proverb ]

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. [ Otway ]

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

We should publish our joys, and conceals our griefs. [ Proverb ]

No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. [ Seneca ]

Our pleasures are mostly imagined, but our griefs real. [ Proverb ]

This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs. [ Lavater ]

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefs prove. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative. [ Robert Herrick ]

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. [ Lavater ]

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 ]

Friendship throws a greater luster on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties. [ Cicero ]

Think how completely all the griefs of this mortal life will be compensated by one age, for instance, of the felicities beyond the grave. [ John Foster ]

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 ]

No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]

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 ]

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]