I have been told that, when you can adequately formulate a grief, you have removed half the sting of it, and I fancy that in the case of the pleasing emotions the same explication doubles the pleasure. That is the virtue of the poets, since they do for the ordinary man what he cannot do for himself.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

Grief is itself a medicine.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, said Mr. Bumble. So cry away.

Let yourself go with the disease, be with it, keep company with it — this is the way to be rid of it.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of the perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?

DOCTOR:
Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.

Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .