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“Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.”

Giving Heart Children Reason Grief Fire Arms Bears Blame No Reason

Book:The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.”

Ifs Knows Way Might Desire Grief Lord Saws Land Arms Sorrow Swim Flood Glances Our Lord Jerusalem Gladness Heaviness

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“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.”

Long Faces Moving Stuff Water Dark Grief Behinds Hair Arms Weight Throat Floating Catching Touch Me Swimmer Slick Long Hair

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.”

“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”

Men Soul Body Life Is Grief Attitude Sea Arms Bears Dancing Assuming My Soul Spectators Crossings

Author:Aime Cesaire

“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.”

Giving Heart Asks Grief Arms Promise Dear Instruction I Promise Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate Dear Heart

Book:Iliad

Source: Iliad

“I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.”

Feels Children Pain Spirit Strong Grief Arms Bears Mountain My Children Grieving Immortal Load Redeemed Grief And Death

Author:Charles Wesley

“To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.”

Mean Feelings Pain Grief Arms Becoming Oneself Grieving Length Living Fully

Book:The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide

Source: The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide

“And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?”

“Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.”

Ifs Believe Children Has Beens I Believe Grief Vision Fire Arms Devil Direct Machines Died Instruments Horrible Adam Suggestions Cannons

Author:Martin Luther

“Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again”

Long Pain Grief Arms True Love My True Love

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.”

Can Do Grief Arms Lessons Bed Life Lesson Lap Bereavement Pillow Timetables

Author:Patti Davis