"Do not grieve so much for a..." - Quote by Euripides

“The life of men is painful.”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

“Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.”

“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”

“Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.”

“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”

“The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”

“Only in dreams of springShall I ever see againThe flowering of my cherry trees.”

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form”