Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to
the living, and the dead know it not.--XENOPHON.
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while
a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it
with nothingness at all points.--MADAME SWETCHINE.
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation
that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our
pleasure we have more.--GREVILLE.
They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.--BYRON.
Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain.
--DRYDEN.
It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be
assuaged by baldness.--CICERO.
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are
easiest consoled.--H.W. SHAW.
Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls,
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest:
Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.
--YOUNG.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may
elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.--HORACE
GREELEY.
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.--SHAKESPEARE.
GRUMBLING.--When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he is the very last
man to be complaining of other people.
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