"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time." - Edmund Burke

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." - Antoine Rivarol

"That grief is light which can take counsel." - Seneca

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself." - Seneca