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“Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”

Long Lost Love Is Grief Sadness Type Long Time Pops Disappear Bereavement Someone You Love Sneaky Lost Someone

Author:Daniel Handler

“There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

“Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.”

Grief Fronts Mess Porch Money Can't Buy Happiness Front Porches

Author:James Lee Burke

“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”

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Author:Thrity Umrigar

“As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.”

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Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

Men Self Hate Grief Disappointment Ugly Selfish Pity Bitterness Self Pity

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”

Ifs Way Pain Grief Emotion Heard Busy Vulnerability Allowing Throwing Too Busy Detached Being Afraid

Author:Mitch Albom

“There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.”

Dream Seems Joy Girl Grief Like You Despair Tragedy Guilt Rage These Days Why Not Toms Prudence Faith Hope Girl Of My Dreams

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?” I didn’t think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. “Pernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?” Only someone who’d learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. “Fifth,” he snarled. “Answer me.”

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Author:Karen Marie Moning

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.”

Thinking Humans May Sometimes Happens Deals Grief Sadness Weather Being Human

Book:Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

World Way Seems Dies Grief Worst Stage Initials Borrowed Time Goes By Stages Of Grief When Someone Dies

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

Pain Grief Compassion Pity Touch Someone

Author:Stephen Levine

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

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Author:Sara Gruen

“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”

Years Three Grief Tomorrow Thousand Three Years

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”

World Mind States Feelings Able Happiness Felt Grief Emotion Experience Misery Supreme Novelists Comparison Human Wisdom Monte Cristo Deepest Feelings

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Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…

“I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.”

Feels Mind Doe Moments Reality Grief Morning Cutting Worst Sorrow Misery Passionate Links Baths Otherness Worst Moments

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”

Needs Firsts Mean Said Eye Lost Loses Sin Grief Steps Illusion Absence Supposed To Be Innocence First Steps Subordination Lestat Vampire Lestat

Author:Anne Rice

“Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.”

Knows Giving Enough Life Is Love Is Pleasure Grief Mines Give Me Grieving

Author:Ruth Graham

“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Important Joy Hate Next Strong Grief Emotion Anxiety Eternity Harmony Seven Patient Karma Inclination Adoration Holding Back Shoguns

Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN

“Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.”

Humans Grief Sorrow Grieving Imperfect

Author:Sarah Dessen

“She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.”

Trying Stills Given Parent Rooms Grief Periods Stones Breaths Edges Sat Folds Given Up Couches Curls Deep Breath

Author:Alice Sebold

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.”

Ifs Doe Seems Faces Desire Grief Cases Missing Undone Missing Something

Book:Undoing Gender

Source: Undoing Gender

“Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be”

Ifs May Shows Might Speak Hurt Grief Healing Fantasy Impossible Possibility Consolation

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”

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Book:The waiting years

Source: The waiting years

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

Life Persons Hate Grief Inspire Absence Grieving Loved Ones Bereavement Griefing

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”

Sometimes Grief Mistake Absence Ecstasy

Book:Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin

Source: Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin

“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”

Grief Remains Temperament Plunge Marius Cosette

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted”

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Author:Richard Yates

“Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.”

Ifs Men Would Be Moving Young Joy Grief Sorrow Trials Tales Young Man Chairs Monk Joy And Happiness

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.”

Thinking War Stories Faces Grief Listening Love Story Dumb Rats War Stories

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

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Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?”

Grief Tears Selfish Unhappiness

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

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Book:Morning is a long time coming

Source: Morning is a long time coming

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

Persons Can Do Ability Grief Wonder Strength Unhappy Undone Unhappy Person

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.”

People Two Different War Suffering Causes Grief Path Ocean Rivers Appropriate Temperament Crooked Different Paths Do You Love Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

Reality Grief Youth Sorrow Promise Offers Sad Thought Provoking Youth Life

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”

Past Grief Greater

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”

Children Pain Remember Suffering Jesus Grief Sorrow Kissing Pain And Suffering Loss Of A Parent

Author:Mother Teresa

“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.”

Firsts Joy Grief

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe

“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”

Ifs Want Trying Doe Sometimes Pain Lasts Joy Memories Grief One Thing Comfort Grants Want To Be Happy

Author:Megan Hart

“On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.”

Hard Earth Pain Grief Cold Deeper Sweat Scar

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself”

Grief Cry Grieving Funeral

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”

Ifs Way Helping Pain Grief Terrible Down And Burden Wounds Shoulders Grieving Bereavement

Book:The Book of Ruth

Source: The Book of Ruth

“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.”

Ifs Want Trying Years May Book Memories Forget Grief Too Much Figures Six My Friends Setting Settings Sheep Forget Him Forget A Friend

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery