When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

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

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

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.