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Quote by Donald Hall

“Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.”

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Donald Hall is a renowned American poet, born on September 20, 1928. His poetry is known for its simplicity, depth, and emotional richness, which has won him a wide audience. more

“The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.”

Long Sometimes Loss Answers Grief Existence Mystery Love You Gratitude Long Time Weight Deeper Driven Knees Sanctity Wakes You

Author:Dean Koontz

“No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.”

Self Loss Grief Tragedy Compromise Survived Day To Day Sense Of Self Indignity Mishaps

Author:Kelsey Grammer

“I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.”

Wish Loss Grief Behinds Rising Gray Wish You Behind You Oaks

Book:White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006

Source: White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006

“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”

Feet Goes On Travel Traveler

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Grief is a species of idleness.”

Grief Sorrow Species Idleness

Author:Samuel Johnson

“In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.”

Pain Grief Ten And Love Burden Rage Absence Variety Undone Hopes And Fears

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.”

Way Want Use Choices Power Weapons Gun Firearms Neutrality Irrationality Bad Decision Power Corrupts Shotguns Corrupt Power Lethal Weapon

Author:Steve Ditko

“I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?”

Trying Littles Politician Prove Gun Tired Moderates Lenin And Stalin

Author:Ann Coulter

“If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Ifs Real Enough Pleasure Situation Happened Awareness Gun Submit Outburst Love Freedom

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Death is too much to ask of the living.”

Asks Grief Too Much

Book:The Town in Bloom