Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Scyrii, Frag. 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
The quote "To weep is to make less the depth of grief." is famous quote by William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English playwright and poet.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
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Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.44, p. 284.
Religious Wisdom
“If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.”
Si vis me flere, dolendum est
primum ipsi tibi.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 102
“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.”
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"Sephestia's Song to her Child", line 1, from Menaphon (1589); Dyce p. 286.
“She sank again into the salty water…into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in The Reader's Digest (1992) Vol. 140, p. 194