Elana Dykewomon Quotes
...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
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Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
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Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.
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We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.
