William Cowper - Grief is itself a medicine.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

William Faulkner - Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

William Cowper - Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Earl Grollman - Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

William Shakespeare - Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it break.

William Blake - Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Orison Swett Marden - There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Desiderius Erasmus - Time takes away the grief of men.

Faraaz Kazi - No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

Sarah Dessen - Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

George Henry Lewes - The only cure for grief is action.

Pema Chodron - Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

George Eliot - She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.