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“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.”

Ifs Eye Grief Wonder Mines Easier Size Grieving Grief And Loss Griefing Grief Loss Probing Recovering From Grief

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.”

Way Persons Wanted Pain Hurt Grief Mines Trauma Criticize Astrology Coping

Book:My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

Source: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”

Art Found Language Grief Education Mines Development Activity Including I Realized Classroom Coffins Burial Language Arts Language Development

Author:Mem Fox

“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.”

Hard Lying Speak Heaven Grief Cry Mines Stones Dear Grieving Spheres Darling

Author:Petrarch

“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

People Thinking Pain Life Is Religious Grief Greater Trouble Mines Comfort Weight Rose Aids Affliction Torment Consolation Martyr Solace

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.”

Looks Heart Eye Life Is Fall Jesus Left Grief Too Much Tears Mines My Heart Stones Wit Hills Lifts Leafs Everlasting Numb Falling Leaves

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.”

Heart Eye Grief Tears Mines My Heart

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare; by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare; by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.

“I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.”

Feels Believe I Believe Grief Sadness Mines Connections Importance Individuality I Believe In Midst

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.”

Knows Giving Enough Life Is Love Is Pleasure Grief Mines Give Me Grieving

Author:Ruth Graham

“For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”

Humans Littles Long Enough Running Loss Grief Cutting Conditions Cry Mines Weakness Mourning Human Condition

Book:Iris and Ruby: A Novel

Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel

“Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!”

Source: Sylvie and Bruno

“This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.”

People Feels Doe My Own Deals Grief Mines Assuming Reactions Upset Unexpected Timing

Book:Stay

Source: Stay

“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

People Has Beens Self Done Moments Dream Lost Grief Existence Attention Mines Pure Window Paid Dreamer Nothingness Inner Self Inner Life Faded Lost Myself

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.”

Loses Grief Mines Disbelief

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.”

Should Humans Eye Human Beings Grief Mines Strange Choke

Book:Shirley and The Professor

Source: Shirley and The Professor

“Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?”

“My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!”

Grief Gone Sadness Mines Flower Sad Fruit Yellow Leafs Worms Yellow Leaves

Author:Lord Byron

“Was ever grief like mine?”

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert