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“Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.”

Firsts Causes Fear Grief Half Enemy Victory Shapes Torment

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.”

Men Mind Passion Fear Grief Masters Honor Weak Revenge Triumph Mates Fear Of Death

Author:Francis Bacon

“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

People Knows Humans Important Helping Feelings Fear Grief Communication Scary Upset Overwhelming Not Alone Manageable

Author:Fred Rogers

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

People May Moments Pain Fear Grief Flow Filled Brutal

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”

Source: A Grief Observed

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

Way Feelings Fear Hurt Grief Awful Grieving Bitterness Symptoms Expressing Anger Expressing Feelings

Author:Joan Rivers

“I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?”

Fear Born Grief Buddhist Craving

Author:Gautama Buddha