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“grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping”

House Sleep Grief Doors Air Blow Disappear Rings Bells

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]”

Men Should Grief Sorrow Majors Let Me Bounds Blow Proportion Moderates Exceed

Author:Juvenal

“The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?”

Heart Grief Wave Blow Graves Grass Waking

Book:Rivers to the Sea

Source: Rivers to the Sea

“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”

Men Grief Sadness Blow Plague Bladder

Author:William Shakespeare

“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”

Mind Humans Grief Blow Human Mind Anguish Fuse

Book:Mister God, This is Anna

Source: Mister God, This is Anna

“Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.”

Ifs Hard Running Grief Wind Blow Gentle Swim Sail Sailing Harbors Picnics

Author:Barbara Ascher

“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.”

“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

House Grows Sleep Grief Doors Air Wall Protect Mirrors Forgotten Blow Disappear Rings Chairs Bells Protect You Younger Sister

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.”

Needs Children Littles Sound Simple Grief Sight Down And Clean Blow Remembered Dull Climbs Scent Mud Ache Hammers Faded Little Sister Fetch

Book:The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)

Source: The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)

“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

Heart Lying Song Simple Grief Cutting Sea Dog Wind Broken Bird Blow Wounds Tiny Rings Holes Bells Salt Cracked Clutch Stray Dogs

Author:Michael Leunig

“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Happiness Faces Joy Dies Grows Grief Tears Wind Laughter Blow Heavy Breasts Tides Stride Tidy

Book:Poetry

Source: Poetry

“Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.”

Giving Trying Hard Feelings Faces Fall Strong Loss Grief Teach Darkness Knowing Sadness Wind Cold Depth Blow Storm Firm Heartache Stand Firm Feeling Sad Storms Of Life

Author:Joseph M. Marshall III