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Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- That is light grieving!

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.

The only cure for grief is action.

Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

There is a solemn luxury in grief.

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

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

Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain As it should deluge once again; But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.