Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), Chapter 21 (p. 282)
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
Variant: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Source: The Wild Palms
“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.”
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
Context: Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover
The angry scar to which the world was blind:
And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.
“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain”
'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
Epigrams
“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
