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“My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.”

Wells Self Hard Wisdom Faces Felt Powerful Grief Comfortable And Love Aging Self Confidence Forty Dew Tapping

Author:Nancy A. Collins

“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”

Feels Heart Doe Ends Pain Suffering Dies Causes Black Grief Compassion Grace Sadness Gold And Love Remains Intense Layers Pearls Coins Resignation Kernel Black Pearl

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.”

“People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.”

People May War Age Grief Changed Circumstances And Love Longing Rage Planes Chariots

Author:Madeline Miller

“Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.”

Wells Sex Grief Events Emotional And Love Disappear Theme Surround Grief And Death Sex And Love

Author:Thomas Lynch

“Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.”

Grief And Love Graves Apparel

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.”

Ifs Feels Littles Long Grows Grief Baby Bed Singing Lows Flow Empty And Love Feds Milk Nurse Pillow

Book:Hannah Coulter: A Novel

Source: Hannah Coulter: A Novel

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

Source: Taggerung

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

World I Can Joy Spirit Dies Can Do Loss Grief Steps Forever Sad And Love Breaths Grieving Going Away My Sister Daring Emulate Griefing Those Grieving Never Stop Loving

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.”

Lasts Speak Grief Emotion Struggle And Love Overcoming Mastery Reign Vehemence

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

World I Can Joy Spirit Can Do Grief And Love Daring Emulate Griefing Those Grieving

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“There are those among you who, although young, have already suffered a full measure of grief and sorrow. My heart is filled with compassion and love for you. How dear you are to the Church. How beloved you are of your Heavenly Father. Though it may seem that you are alone, angels attend you. Though you may feel that no one can understand the depth of your despair, our Savior, Jesus Christ, understands. He suffered more than we can possibly imagine, and He did it for us; He did it for you. You are not alone.”

“Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.”

Knows Men Feels Long Soul Together Spiritual Born Love Is Common Grief Sorrow And Love Pity Buried Anguish Love One Another Yoke Spiritual Love Long Day

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“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

“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.”