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I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

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• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Commitment
  • Grief

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • True

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • You
  • Grief
  • Saying

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief
  • Where
  • Fresh

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

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Grief

• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Grief

• Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

  

  Marc Forster
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Dying

• The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Passion
  • Grief
  • Gallantry

• Ultimately, I think to be successful in fashion, you have to turn into the most incredible HR person. It's about politics. I'm massaging egos and keeping everyone happy.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Happy
  • Fashion

• In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Knowledge
  • Learn
  • Medicine

• Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

  

  David Hume
  • Nature
  • Strong

• I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Grief