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

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”

“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.”

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“Grief like anything else – like a stone – is content only; God gives us the form, that serenity, purity and self-possession with which to surround and live grief.”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.”

“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.”