Grief Quotes
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
James Martineau
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If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Meghan O'Rourke
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Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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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
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I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.
Oprah Winfrey
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid
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People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
C. S. Lewis
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That grief is light which can take counsel.
Seneca the Younger
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Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
William Shakespeare
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The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'
Jennifer Grant
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Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Barry Cornwall
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Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
Annie Proulx
