Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

And remember it's also very funny because side by side with grief lies joy.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement who can tolerate not knowing... not healing not curing... that is a friend who cares.