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William Shakespeare Quotes about Grieving

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My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

Grief makes one hour ten.

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

William Shakespeare (1868). “The Life and Death of King Richard II”, p.81

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions

William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.549

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.

William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA