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“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.”

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Book:The Cancer Journals

Source: The Cancer Journals

“all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.”

Grief Bitterness

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'”

“Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.”

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Author:Rhys Ifans

“She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.”

Years Feelings Would Be Past Remember Faces Left Grief Empty Grateful Remembered Accomplished Bitterness Agony Healer

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.”

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Author:Zane Grey

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

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Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.”

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Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.”

Years Mother Love Is Grief Greater Son Bigger Ugly Saved Grieving Bitterness Unfair Small Things Your Son I Love My Mother

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.”

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Author:Ben Okri