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“Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.”

Heart Grief Rivers Lips Dust

Book:The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

Source: The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

“The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.”

May Play Grief Lips Length Indulgence Sacrilege

Book:Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

“A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.”

Thinking Giving Long Has Beens Feelings Hands Pain Lost Felt Grief Emotion Cutting Pride Giving Up Long Time Losing Lips Rage I Realized Familiar Service To Others Lost You Lip Service

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?”

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Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.”

War Earth Joy Grief Christianity Eternal Messages Threat Lips Torture Everlasting Hereafter Great Joy Tidings Perdition

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions

“Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!”

Christ Grief Forever Sweet Drink Filled Lips Cups Curse Drank Dregs

Author:Octavius Winslow

“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.”

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Author:Samuel Chadwick

“The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)”

Grief Sea Hot Lips Flames Knives Needles Frost

Author:Katherine Catmull