Pastoral Resources

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.