Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
Barton Booth

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.
Paul Engle

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
Peter Akinola

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
Thomas Lynch

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.
Paula Yates

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
Sergio Aragones

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Hesiod

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Nigella Lawson