Advantage Quote by Plutarch

“is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is…

— Mary Shelley

“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother"--tears…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the…

— Neil Gaiman

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

— Xenophon

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn…

— Phillips Brooks

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is…

— Thomas Mann

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

— Edmund Burke

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It…

— Anonymous

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good…

— Plutarch

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater