“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

“Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.”

“Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.”

“If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.”
Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”

“And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.”

“The only cure for grief is action.”

“Every love story is a potential grief story.”

“You, who must rely on others for their happiness, will perpetually be planted in a life of grief and sorrow.”

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”