Grief Quotes
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Each set of woes can be left behind in a folder in a drawer at the end of the day. Whereas in the outside world there is no end of obligation, no protection from the needs and grief of others.
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Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.
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I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
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Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
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I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to it and it's been completely different to how I thought it was going to be.
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Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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There are many stages of grief.
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There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.
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Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
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The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.
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Now I alone sit by the fire,And one remains of three;For two have got their heart's desireAnd left their grief to me.
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Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.
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Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.
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Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
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'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.
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It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
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I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
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Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
