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“Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.”

Heart Art Passion Grief Clouds Dust Depressing Frost Infirmity

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis

“Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.”

Heart Grief Rivers Lips Dust

Book:The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

Source: The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

“This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!”

Life Eye Past Grief Alive Thousand Dust Live Life Another Day I Am Alive

Author:Don Marquis

“They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Book Shows Speak Causes Grief One Thing Reader Clothes Illusion Dust Disguise Pointless Skeletons

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”

Heart Joy Song Grief My Heart Creatures Laughter Empty Longing Stranger Bitter Dust Meat Suspicious Mead Empty Places Catelyn Stark

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.”

Way Want Soul Eye Water Grief Fire Tree Caught Storm Dust Fragile Yellow Scream Agony Rabbits Frogs Drought Indestructible Pollen

Author:Deena Metzger