“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsSometimesLawRealizingGriefWonderCryPossibilityBrotherRegretTypePersonalityConcernedWake UpShameProfoundBoringDeeperUniquenessIn-lawsFittingSaddestNormalityHeartyBrother In Law Book:Life After God Source: Life After God
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.” DoeLawFoundNaturalLossGriefFailingAddictionConvincedCertaintyLiberalismDelusionFundRetiringOddsSchemesAddictNatural LawArithmeticRoulette Author:David Mamet
“The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.” MindMatterEnoughLawLostStuffLosesGriefGoneAssumingCarefulMinimumPursesWallets Author:Jennifer James
“But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.” ShouldLongHardTogetherLawNightGriefTearsLaysLovelyShouldersBrokeEmptinessThroatHoneyHideousSpoonsQuietness Author:Arundhati Roy
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.” InspirationalChildrenLittlesLawLossGriefEventsKingsEternalSizeGrievingProportionCrownsDolls Book:The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Source: The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's
“I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.” GivingYearsLittlesDreamLawLife IsTurnsJusticeLossGriefSunBalanceOne DayGainsTwistsDeprivationDroughtYears Of LifeRainfall Author:Faith Baldwin
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?” ThinkingSaidEarthLawLeftGriefGoneGreaterFairsHistorical FictionAchilles Book:The Song of Achilles Source: The Song of Achilles
“The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.” GovernmentPastMovingLawSufferingTurnsNationsLeadershipLossGriefPolicyPagesFellowsProfoundMoving ForwardAustraliaParliament Author:Kevin Rudd