Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come..

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate..

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blam….

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same….

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

A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at roya….

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature..

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves y….

I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it delib….

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear..

Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts th….

Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to….

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death simil….

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed fro….

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of t….

At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies..

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business..

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe..

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard..

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down..

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the ….