Career Quote by William Godwin

“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

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

— Greg Bear

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there…

— Samuel Johnson

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

Grief is itself a medicine.

— William Cowper

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it…

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We…

— Edward Hirsch

“This is what language is: a habitual grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as this: which…

— Eavan Boland

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own…

— Anthony Kennedy

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

— Moliere