Grief

• It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. — Bion
• You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. — Chinese proverb
• A sorrow's crown of sorrow
  Is remembering happier things. — Dante
• There are sufferings which sympathy may not make lighter. — Lamennais
• Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust
• Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. — William Shakespeare
• If misery loves company, misery has company enough. — Henry David Thoreau
• Ah, why should we wear black for the guests of God? — John Ruskin