I loved thee once; I'll love no moreö Thine be the grief as is the blame; Thou art not what thou wast before, What reason I should be the same?

-Aytoun, Sir Robert
'To an Inconstant Mistress', stanza1.

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never healö The deep, unutterable woe

-Aytoun,William Edmonstoune

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

For inmuchwisdomismuchgrief: and hethat increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes1:18.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believeönot empirically, alas, but only theoreticallyöthat for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

-Brodsky, Ioseph
  Nobel prize acceptance speech.

   Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

-Congreve,William
  Sharper to Setter. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.1.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Charity', l.159.

Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people's wery scarce, what Isays is, makethemost on 'em.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

They moved so gently, that their footsteps made no noise; but there were sobs from among the group, and sounds of grief and mourning.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^1  The death of little Nell. The Old Curiosity Shop, ch.71.

Yes, he thought, between grief and nothing I will take grief.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
   Wilborne. The Wild Palms,'Wild Palms', no.5.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Intruder in the Dust, ch.3.

Thetheme defeatsstructuralism, for it isanemotion.The theme of Lord of the Flies isgrief, sheer grief, grief, grief, grief.

-Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
  'Moving Target'.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Deserted Village, l.384.

His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or a leaf Every instant grow.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'Lost Love'.

In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

-Gray,Thomas
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.128^30.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

-Herbert, George
'Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

   No worst, there is none.Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'No worst, there is none'.

La syme¤  trie, c'est l'ennui, et l'ennui est le fond me"  me du deuil. Le de¤  sespoir ba"  ille. Symmetry isboredomand boredom isthe foundation of grief. Despair yawns.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.2, bk.4, ch.1.

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.155^60.