Horace Grief Quotations

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.