“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”

— Robin Hobb, book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

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American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

A veces estoy en un infierno y no me lamento. No encuentro de qué lamentarme.
Voces (1943)

“It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do.”

George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer

infinity plus interview (2001)
Context: Historical processes have never much interested me, but history is full of stories, full of triumph and tragedy and battles won and lost. It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do. Though some may have had crowns on their heads or blood on their hands, in the end they were not so different from you and me, and therein lies their fascination. I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.

“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“To grieve is the gift of the living — a gift so many of our kin have long lost”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Memories of Ice (2001)

“Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Solitude
Poetry quotes
Context: Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.