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What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.
High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.
I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.
Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.