Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

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.

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.

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should read more

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.