 | It is light grief that can take counsel.
-
Anonymous. |
| "Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
- Benjamin Disraeli
. |
| "Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
- Euripides
. |
| "The only cure for grief is action."
- George Henry Lewes
. |
| "Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
- Homer
, The Odyssey. |
| "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
- Samuel Johnson
. |
| "Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
- Sophocles
, Antigone. |
| "The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
- Sophocles
, Oedipus Rex. |
| "What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief."
- William Shakespeare
, "The Winter's Tale", Act 3 scene 2. |