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

  Walker Percy

  Topics in Grief, Past

  Tags in Grieve, Aggravates, Loss

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Horace

  Topics in Emotion, Grief

  Tags in Weep

• We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal. Otherwise, life is unbearable.

  Agate Nesaule

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Relationships

• One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Feeling

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Grief, Politics

  Tags in Poetry

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

  Topics in African Proverbs, Grief

  Tags in Lies

• Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. (attributed)

  The Talmud

  Topics in Commitment, Grief

  Tags in Action

• One joy shatters a hundred griefs.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Grief, Joy

• Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

  Amelia Josephine Burr

  Topics in Death, Grief, Life

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

  Aeschylus

  Topics in Grief, Joy

• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Grief, Joy

• … joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Grief, Joy

  Tags in Connections

• Bereavement in their death to feel
  Whom We have never seen —
  A Vital Kinsmanship import
  Our Soul and theirs — between —

  For Stranger — Strangers do not mourn —
  There be Immortal friends
  Whom Death see first — ’tis news of this
  That paralyze Ourselves…

  Who, vital only to Our Thought —
  Such Presence bear away
  In dying — ’tis as if Our Souls
  Absconded — suddenly —

  Emily Dickinson

  Topics in Death, Friendship, Grief