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Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

“He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.”

Ifs Needs Heart Helping Sleep Grief Bears Sorrow Thee Best Friend

Author:Richard Barnfield

“Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.”

Ifs Bigs Grief Spread Smell Grieving Crap Manure

Author:Thomas Golden, Jr.

“If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.”

Ifs Said Truth Grief Honest Honesty Pride Tired Lied

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Humans Moments Speak Grief Steps Heard Suicide Oneself Spheres First Steps Unspeakable

Author:Victoria Alexander

“Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do - but if you know how and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief.”

People Ifs Knows Want Use Running Lasts Grief Situation Know How Right Now Protect Gun Gun Control Fruitcake

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Inspiration I Believe Church Grief One Thing Masters Indifference Pierce Iniquity

Author:F.B. Meyer

“Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.”

Ifs Wells Desire Fall Found Felt Peace Perfect Grief All Things Thyself Adversaries True Peace

Book:The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ

Source: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ

“If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.”

Ifs Want Should Persons Universe Grows Realizing Loss Grief Program Graduates

Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

“I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!”

Ifs Should Heaven Forget Grief Depression Mad Illness Mental Illness If I Could Should I

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?”

Ifs Pain Grief What If

Book:Our Andromeda

Source: Our Andromeda

“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

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

Ifs Grief Sadness Tears Sorrow Gold Raises Misery Heal Weeping

Author:Sophocles

“I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Kind Grief Talking Fake Being Real Sommelier

Author:Alton Brown

“Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.”

Ifs Knows Giving Sometimes Reason Feelings Turns Walks Grief Attention Cases Instinct Response Pay Attention Knees Initials Jerk Indicators

Author:Esther Hicks

“How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'”

“Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.”

Ifs World Stills Hands Sex Grief Known Havens Lucky Crosses Absolutes Division Divides Unlucky Tropics

Book:Levels of Life

Source: Levels of Life

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Mean Long Doe Might Joy Hate Strong Wish Grief Emotion Known Study Anxiety Seven Patient Inclination Adoration Manly Descendants Strong Man Restraining

Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.”

Ifs Feelings Grief Photography Hopefully Frustration Viewers Disbelief Outraged

Author:James Nachtwey

“Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells May Doe Might Action Suffering Term Grief Return Consequence Afghanistan Contemplating

Author:Geoff Hoon

“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.”

Ifs Giving Feels Pain Hurt Grief Eternal Rage

Author:Omar Khayyam

“No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.”

Ifs Doe Pain Grief Teach Lessons Tasks Concentration Unattractive

Book:Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

Source: Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

“When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.”

Ifs Body Suffering Dies Grief Broken Sorrow Bones Your Body Skulls Cracked Bruised

Author:Roberto Bolano

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.”

Ifs Needs Should Writing States Reason Suffering Turns Process Grief Sorrow Reason Why No Reason Maps Arbitrary

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.”

Ifs Suffering Language Grief Dying Sorrow Glorious Priests Exhausted Knots Headache Sorrowful

Author:Virginia Heffernan

“Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.”

Ifs Feelings Spirit Names Left Fun Common Grief Laughing Lowest Malice Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator Toothless

Author:George Takei

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

Ifs Heart Pain Grief Compassion Garden Allies Griefing Grief Loss Searching For Love Pain And Loss Love And Wisdom

Author:Rumi

“There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

“The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?”

Ifs Joy Grief Creation Sorrow

Book:At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi

Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi

“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”

Ifs Men Grief Attitude Alaska Gloomy Stifling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.”

Ifs Grief Conditions Universal Transactions

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)”

People Ifs Kind Seems Pain Differences Grief Worry Expected Uncertainty Translate Precise Seeming

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“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.”

“Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers... ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.”

Ifs Men Heart Soul Prayer Grief Cry Broken Praying Battle Lips Phrases Collections Balanced Pouring Fiery Fingertips What Is Love Earnestness

Author:Samuel Chadwick

“Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.”

People Ifs Giving Persons Lost Grief Painful Remembrance Magnifying Remembrance Day

Author:Patti Smith

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”

Ifs Knows Soul Sleep Grief Sad Died Suicide Pills Bleeding Sleeping Pills

Author:Clifford Odets

“We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Humans Made Hard Enough Human Beings Grief Our Lives Alive Discipline Accounts Insight Myth Weather Yield Woe Inexplicable Seizures

Author:May Sarton

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