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“How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!”

Heart Dream Grief Land Return Sorrow Heavy Disaster Oblivion Mute Morrow Slumber Deceptive Wailing

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.”

Young Found Names Given Loss Grief Land Remembered Lonesome Given Names

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.”

Way Night Culture House Dark Grief Land Mankind Cost Prison Dawn Persist Dark Night Promised Land

Book:A Mania for Magnificence

Source: A Mania for Magnificence

“I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.”

Ifs Knows Way Might Desire Grief Lord Saws Land Arms Sorrow Swim Flood Glances Our Lord Jerusalem Gladness Heaviness

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

World Love Stills Inspiration Hope Grows Dark Love Is Grief Greater Land Fairs Peril Dark Places Fellowship Of The Ring Galadriel

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.”

People Needs Humans Mean Has Beens Country Enough Happens Human Beings Grief Cities Happened Land Son Terrible Bunch Tragic Cows Agony Crucible Jericho Trough

Book:Set this House on Fire

Source: Set this House on Fire

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”

Giving Grief Tree Land Give Me Fallen Leafs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.”

“In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.”

Way Feelings Grief Land Harm Grieving Lasting Crash Taxi Landing Wreckage

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.”

Loss Grief Greater Land Native Lost Friendship Lost Friend Native Land

Author:Euripides