She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make read more

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.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

The only cure for grief is action.

The only cure for grief is action.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes read more

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally read more

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.