Grief Quotes
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Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.
William Shakespeare
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We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
Peter Akinola
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
A. R. Ammons
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Other than that, I've taken grief my whole life over the way I played and this and that. I let the criticism roll of my back and use it to get better.
Bob Golic
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Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.
Eric Gamalinda
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The right hon. Gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief by his actions-who has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam-and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented.
John Bright
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
Oprah Winfrey
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
Seneca the Younger
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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
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There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFee
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The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
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She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Anthony Burgess
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
J. D. Salinger
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I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.
Angelina Jolie
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I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.
William Wallace
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Meghan O'Rourke
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
John Gardner
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We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.
Elizabeth Esty
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Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
Frank Deford
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I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Margaret Anderson
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Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
Jacqueline Novogratz