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“Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.”

Should Feelings Faces Evil Natural Grief Absence Moderation Undesirable

Author:Plutarch

“The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.”

Real Grief Air Absence Substance Imaginary Rope

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Memories Grief Objects Affection Delight Absence Impression Intense Poignant Widowed

Author:James Martineau

“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”

Men Needs Force Loss Grief Fire Objects Circumstances Tests Absolutes Endure Absence Separation Beloved Indifference Crucible Grief Loss

Book:Max

Source: Max

“I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.”

Thinking World Wells Reality Spiritual Process Grief Profound Absence Metaphysical Pillars Reckoning Profound Spiritual Reality Of Death

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“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

“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

“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

“New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

Feels Believe Whole Stories Hurt Rooms Grief Forever Air Missing Endure Don't Believe Absence More Time Filling Reminders Passing Away Grievers

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”

Feels Mind Soul Left Language Grief Existence Taken Sadness Sky Taste Angel Absence Prophet Flavor Weeping Mourn

Author:Rumi

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

Grief Sky Spread Absence Grieving Infant Grief Observed Empty Houses Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief”

Form Grief Including Absence

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”

Mind Heart Soul Left Grief Existence Sky Broken Absence Broken Heart Weeping

Author:Rumi

“Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.”

Left Loss Grief Behinds Absence Rope Left Behind

Book:Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart

Source: Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart

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

House Loss Grief Painful Absence Enormous Your Presence Your Absence

Author:Donald Hall

“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

“I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

Knows Way Enough Stories Together Girl Force Dark Love Is Grief Pieces Bears Gold Shining Absence Carrie Thread Stitches Embroidery Shining Out

Author:Wendell Berry