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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Shadow, Twenties
William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.68

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sadness, Sorrow
1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Memorable, Heart

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Joy, Violence
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

William Shakespeare
Heartbreak, Grief, Heart
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

William Shakespeare
Grief, Grieving, Clouds
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Grief, Eye
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 76

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

William Shakespeare
Children, Lying, Grief
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Want, Juliet
William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

William Shakespeare
Kings, Grief, Sorrow
1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.71-3.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Grief, Men
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Wailing, Harm
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.131

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sorrow, Weight

Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, My Heart
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.267

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Tunes, Minutes

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Mind, Degenerates
William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.392, BookCaps Study Guides

But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Brother, Grief
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sorrow, Bed
1603-4 Brabanzio, learning of Desdemona's marriage. Othello, act 1, sc.3, l.55-8.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Past, Late
1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?

William Shakespeare
Grief, World, Woe
William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

William Shakespeare
Art, Grief, Idols
William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

William Shakespeare
Grief, Hands, Voice
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.160, BookCaps Study Guides

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Grief, Ears
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.541

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Men, Age
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

William Shakespeare
Freedom, Grief, Ends
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 271

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