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“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

Children Reality Young Grows Parent Common Grief Childhood Terrible Protect Adults Bitter Awful Innocence Vulnerability Rodents

Author:Katherine Dunn

“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)

“We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.”

Children Pain Form Suffering Given Born Grief Anxiety Disappointment Harm Contemplating Severe Grief And Death

Book:Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

Source: Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

“They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire." I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child.”

Ifs Giving Children Two Grows Loses Grief Half Growing Up Internet Vampire Temper Cash Juniors Other Half Only Child Server Rudy

Book:Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series

Source: Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series

“Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!”

Feels Kind Children Mother Fall Father Grief Share Tears Sorrow Filled Relief Woe Infant

Author:William Blake

“There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”

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“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.”

Men Believe Children Soul Happens Hope Parent Grief Imagine Unhappy Description Upbringing Paralyzed

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.”

Children States Lasts America Remember Forget United Grief United States Fire Honor Died Phones Passing Passings Patriotic Funeral Ashes September United States Of America Phone Calls

Author:George W. Bush

“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

“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”

Men Children Father Grief Lucky Disappointment Life Happiness Fathers Day Bitter Disappointment

Book:The complete Greek tragedies

Source: The complete Greek tragedies

“The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.”

Children Made Christian Religious Grief Trouble Blood Kings Honor Sorrow Highest Red Lifts Crowns Affliction Jewels Martyrdom

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.”

People Children Long Feelings Suffering Natural Grief Share Loved Ones Natural Feelings

Book:Learning to say good-by

Source: Learning to say good-by

“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?”

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

Children Grief Sorrow Mourning Grief And Loss Bereavement Mourn Condolences Griefing Deceased Grief Loss Grief And Mourning Grief Comfort Help With Grief Losing Love Our Condolences Deep Grief

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“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

“When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.”

Children Dies Grief Break Fundamentals Patterns

Book:Trick of the Eye

Source: Trick of the Eye

“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”

People Thinking Knows Children Order Black Memories Poor Grief Patient Division Rejoice Poor People Violet Purple Be Patient Bereavement Rebellious Radiant

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.”

Children Mother Grief Realised

Author:Namie Amuro

“His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.”

Life Should Years Children Ends Light Father Numbers Grief Half Boys Four Son Late Graves Granted Miserable Four Years Cheeks Alas Chill Fifth Beard Tombs Epitaph Consoling

Author:Diophantus

“It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.”

Knows Want Needs Children Done Night Interest Grief Despair Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Where You Live

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.”

People Children I Can Happens Lost Speak Parent Grief Tree Terrible Ill Beloved Branches Cousin Sibling Kinship Mentally Ill Shorthand Lost Child

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“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?”

Children Mother Jesus Grief Heard Slavery Cried Thirteen Mud Puddles

Author:Sojourner Truth

“As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.”

“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.”

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