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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

It’s a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there’s an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.