"Grief is a species of idleness." — Samuel Johnson

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
• I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as… — Kathleen Battle
• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had… — Joseph Addison
• Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for… — William Blake
• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed… — James Buchan
• To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to… — Alcaeus
• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. — William S. Burroughs
• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that… — Lord Byron

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