żałość in inglese:

grief is exhausting.

As an atheist/agnostic it can be difficult to cope with grief in a society that is 95% religious.

You think that people are okay, but I allow one to think that people and all societies are bad. No one wants other people to tolerate their mischief. People give grief to people because their viewpoints vary.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Republicans and Democrats, Christians, Atheists, Muslims and all other faiths, Americans and Immigrants, everyone was united in grief for the devastation of 9/11.

Grief on the face is better than the stain in the heart.

It was to say that going to the station was too much of a bother after all so I should come to the hotel she's staying at. Good grief, what a selfish woman!

The reality of having offfended God, whom one has come to love more deeply, evokes tears of grief

It was a grief to them that they had no children. She was overcome with grief when her husband died.

... which left little room for grief

We’ve all experienced the grief of losing someone we love.

newspaper pictures of grief-stricken relatives

Good grief! I had no idea you had been placed in such a tight spot.

His little daughter's bad behaviour caused him a lot of grief.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

a tale of woe

And woe be to anyone who tried to take him away from it.

He listened to my woes with a sympathetic expression on his face.

He was the cause of my woe

... Here's my tale of woe."

Woe to those who presume that they are destined to ‘enlighten’ others, not themselves!

Woe to the vanquished.

A woman is the woe of man.

Woe to him!

Woe betide him!

Woe to who be alone, my friends. It seems that social isolation quickly destroys one's reason.

Woe to infidels.

Woe to the conquered!

Woe betide the child who speaks correct English; he will be the laughing-stock of his classmates.