No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

— William Shakespeare

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…

— Paulo Coelho

“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.”

— Steven Cooper

“You've been my beacon of light in my storm of grief, and I don't know if I could live without you.”

— Katie Ashley

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger…

— David Nicholls

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

— Thrity Umrigar

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

— Ovid

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

— Adrienne Rich

“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will…

— Brian Morton