"You know, I experimented with feeling guilty about the wholesome thing, but it seemed like too much work. I mean, I wasn’t even born then. I tried, I wallowed for a few months, and it just felt dumb."

"Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is passed away."

"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."

"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

"In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

"What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief."

"A genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief; a sense of Christ's living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling."

"Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat."

"Grieving is a sign of spiritual health."

"Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque exæstuat intus, Cogitur et vires multiplicare suas."

"The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb."

"Guilt. It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our body."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"But I have That honourable grief lodg'd here which burns Worse than tears drown."

"Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south."

"You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those."

"My grief lies all within; And these external manners of laments Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul."

"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!"

"Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Which shows like grief itself, but is not so; For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects."

"Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest With more of thine."

"I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless."

"Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache, with air and agony with words."

"Nor doth the general care Take hold on me, for my particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows And it is still itself."

"Acceptance is the better part of grief."

"Some griefs show much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit."

"But what is grief, if not love persevering?"

"To say that a life is grievable is to claim that a life, even before it is lost, is, or will be, worthy of being grieved on the occasion of its loss; the life has value in relation to mortality. One treats a person differently if one brings the sense of the grievability of the other to one’s ethical bearing toward the other. If an other’s loss would register as a loss, would be marked and mourned, and if the prospect of loss is feared, and precautions are thus taken to safeguard that life from harm or destruction, then our very ability to value and safeguard a life depends upon an ongoing sense of its grievability—the conjectured future of a life as an indefinite potential that would be mourned were it cut short or lost."

"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended."

"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!"

"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 garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?"

"For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop."

"But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip, When grief hath mates."

"Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit."

"Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds."

"We are not yet speaking about equality if we have not yet spoken about equal grievability, or the equal attribution of grievability. Grievability is a defining feature of equality. Those whose grievability is not assumed are those who suffer inequality—unequal value."

"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate."

"Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus."

"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."

"My grief lies onward and my joy behind."

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

"What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it."

"Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens."

"Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est."

"Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu."

"If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety."

"For grief is crowned with consolation."

"Facinus quos inquinat æquat."

"Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi æstimo."

"The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself."