Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it`s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
- Emmylou HarrisThey are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
- John FordThey which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
- John PearsonOf all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
- Samuel JohnsonWaste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Abdel Bari AtwanStriving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
- Andrea DrakeEven his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
- HomerOne joy shatters a hundred griefs
- Chinese ProverbsThe greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
- Sophocles