“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 2

About William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, author of 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

“To thine own self be true.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Winter is come and gone, but grief returns with the revolving year.”

“Acceptance is the better part of grief.”

“Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.”