"Yes," said Glenarvan; "excessive grief has produced the same hallucination in both of them, and at the same time."
Confucius said: "Bemoan not the departed with excessive grief.
But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.
And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife.
Notwithstanding his excessive grief, however, he did not lose his head, and at once handed us over to the care of his Sages.
On the 30th, in the night, under the influence of excessive grief, he moaned out this complaint, that was hardly heard: "Oh, dear!
She feared that grief so excessive would at length turn my brain, and in truth I was not always in my proper senses.
The funeral was solemn, but not really marred by excessive grief.
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living.
Well, for whom would I show excessive grief if not for this man?