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“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“grief is an illness I can't recover from.”

I Can Grief Illness

Book:Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels

Source: Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels

“Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.”

Body Spirit Sleep Walks Grief Illness Breathe Sickness

Author:Zelda Popkin

“I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.”

Thinking Wells Used Found Grief Awareness Prepared Wave Illness Manic Depressive

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.”

Ifs Long Seems Would Be Grief Clear Wind Shapes Guilt Clouds Illness Weather Defined Finite Nameless

Author:Julian Barnes

“People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.”

People Inspirational Humans Real Moments Motivational Spirit Challenges Grief Divine Losing Cancer Illness Fragile Threatened Testament Human Spirit Breast Cancer

Author:Sheryl Crow

“A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”

“The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'”

Seems Christian Desire Voice Loses Grief Gone Century Identity Benefits Shadow Presses Finals Saint Illness Obstacles Lists Spite Resurrection Fades Easter Risen He Is Risen

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“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

“The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due.”

Way Giving Pain Past Grief Increase Misery Illness Dues Mental Illness Acknowledge Going Away Compounds

Author:Jasinda Wilder