“No music was made from grief, moulded from sorrow.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“This passage from nothingness to real being, this quitting of oneself is a birth accompanied by pain, for by it natural love is excluded. All grief except grief for sin comes from love of the world. In God is neither sorrow, nor grief, nor trouble. Wouldst thou be free from all grief and trouble, abide and walk in God, and to God alone. As long as love of the creature is in us, pain cannot cease.”

“Genuine grief iz like penitence, not klamorous but subdued; sorrow from the hous tops and penitence in a market place shows more ambishun than piety.”

“There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.”

“First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them.”

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

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

“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”

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