- A day of grief lasts longer than a month of joy. ~ Chinese Proverb
- All things grow with time — except grief. ~ Jewish Proverb
- Compare your griefs with other men’s and they will seem less. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
- Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley
- Every joy will follow in grief’s footsteps. ~ Malawian Proverb
- Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ~ Xenophon
- Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. ~ Egyptian Proverb
- Great griefs are mute. ~ Italian Proverb
- Grief for a dead wife lasts to the door. ~ Italian proverb
- Grief is a species of idleness. ~Samuel Johnson
- Grief makes one hour ten. ~ William Shakespeare
- Grief pent up will burst the heart. ~ Italian proverb
- He was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a share in her thoughts. ~George Eliot
- He, who laughs too much, is hiding his grief. ~ Italian Proverb
- If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief. ~ Indian Proverb
- If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere
- If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. ~ Horace
- If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
- In much knowledge there is also much grief ~ Queen Marie of Romania
- In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears. ~ French Proverb
- It is a solace to the miserable to have a companion in their grief. ~ Latin proverb
- Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief. ~ Chinese Proverb
- No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. ~ Henry Carey
- One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief. ~ Egyptian Proverb
- Silence is a cure for grief ~ Arabian Proverb
- Tears are the silent language of grief. ~ Voltaire
- The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief. ~ Malagasy Proverb
- The only cure for grief is action. ~ G. H.Lewes quotes
- There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
- There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief. ~ George Herbert
- We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
- When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran
- Where there is no honor, there is no grief. ~ George Herbert
- You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
