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- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
- Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
- If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Modern Manners, 1983
- Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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