Marcus Tullius Cicero Grief Quotations

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

Work makes a callus against grief.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.