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Source: Tales of Power

“Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?”

Ifs World War Enough Moments Pain Hours Grief Rounds Circles War Of The Worlds Bombs Steady Dropping Static Often Is One Hour Overhead Trenches Bombers Physical Pain World War One

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.”

Looks Use Pain Father Understanding Growth Challenges Grief Tools Pressure Personal Growth Discomfort

Author:Richard G. Scott

“When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain...Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.”

Trying May Long Pain Grief Comfort Boxes Manage Grieving Vocabulary

Author:Kay Warren

“I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.”

Giving Trying Humans Pain Moving Process Rooms Grief Existence Knowing Products Honor Normal Reflection Surrender God Knows Human Existence Kinder Interpreting

Author:Marianne Williamson

“And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.”

Thinking Writing Looks Pain Grief Childhood Brother Bears Bed Sick Active Campaigns Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss.”

Soul Might Happens Pain Loss Grief Survival Technique Things Happen Going Away Bad Things Bad Things Happen When Bad Things Happen

Author:Robert Moss

“When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.”

Heart Pain Hurt Grief My Heart Despair Throat Heart Hurts My Heart Hurts

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.”

Trying Humans Pain Rooms Grief Existence Normal Human Existence

Author:Marianne Williamson

“A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.”

People Helping Inspiration Pain Song Loss Grief Grief And Loss

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.”

People Needs Firsts Heart Made Two Pain Choices Can Do Grief Teach Cases My Heart Hot Forgiving Grieving Holding On Neglected Unfinished Forgive Yourself Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.”

Thinking Should Years Kind States Pain Next Individual President Hours Grief Happened Tragedy Eight Enormous Locals Shooting Officials Shock Motivated Reach Out Staff Mayors Forts Coordination

Author:Barack Obama

“Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our loss and as a way to give something back and memorialize people that are lost. That always makes it far harder to compartmentalize things. As a species, should never get used to tragedy and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening and to celebrate people loving people. We should all be lucky enough to be loved and to love someone in return. That's what this is about.”

People Giving Enough Pain Artist Loss Grief Lucky Tragedy Celebrate

Author:Marc Andreyko

“I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than the world I saw reflected around me, and in the lives of the people in my community, and in my family. There was no benevolent God sparing us pain and loss and grief and struggle. If I was going to continue to write about the place where I am from, and the kind of people who live in my community and who are in my family, I owed it to them to be honest with what our lives are like.”

People World Writing Kind Pain Community Loss Grief Struggle Honest My Family Realization Being Honest Benevolent

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

People Way Inspirational Wisdom Pain Beautiful Suffering Found Loss Grief Known Beauty Struggle Overcoming Depth Defeat This Life Grieving Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Sensitivity Gentleness Psychiatrist Being Strong Overcoming Challenges Beautiful People Grief And Healing Pain And Suffering Being Beautiful Griefing Always Be Happy You Are Beautiful Day To Day Life Losing A Loved One Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Cancer Patients Your Beautiful Grief And Death Those Grieving World Suffering Grieving A Death Grief Comfort Death And Loss Beautiful Inside Cancer Courage Grief Healing Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Help With Grief Inspirational Beauty Grief And Hope Pain Suffering Grieving And Healing Pain And Loss Comfort The Grieving Depression Inspirational Grieving Loss Appreciation In Relationships People With Cancer Amazing Beautiful Recovering From Grief Grieving A Loss Grieving And Loss I Am Beautiful Life Is So Beautiful

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

Mind Pain Literature Grief Behinds Beauty Loneliness Shadow Lonely Fleeting Being Alone Visitors Feeling Lonely Souvenirs

Author:Christopher Morley

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

Ifs Men Enough Character Pain Humanity Evil Literature Common Grief Virtue Conditions Subjects Honesty Integrity Sorrow Treatment Calamity Aggravation Pain And Sorrow Aggravating

Book:The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

Pain Joy Memories Grief Sorrow Grieving Pet Missing You No Pain Griefing Losing A Loved One Short Memory Beautiful Memories Joy And Grief

Author:Aeschylus

“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

“And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.”

Source: New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

Heart Done Pain Hours Common Grief Grace Birth All Things Lists Ashes

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

Ifs Enough Pain Strong Grief Constant Endless Passing Passings Instant Strong Enough Drones Not Strong Not Strong Enough

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.”

Needs Littles Might Pain Beautiful Values Turns Grief Building Appreciation Dialogue Acquire Unusual Beautiful Things Requirements Acquaintance Prerequisites

Book:The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”

Men Doe Pain Suffering Sides Grief Struggle Blood Tears Particular Creatures Accounts Fellows Wounds Breasts Shed Anguish Another Man Pouring

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”

Knows Way Needs Mean Moments Able Pain Love Is Grief Emotion Contrary Allowing Throwing Penetrate Detachment

Author:Mitch Albom

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”

Ifs Way Pain Grief Emotion Heard Busy Vulnerability Allowing Throwing Too Busy Detached Being Afraid

Author:Mitch Albom

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

Pain Grief Compassion Pity Touch Someone

Author:Stephen Levine

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

Thinking Men Needs Years Made Pain Past Lying Fall Speak Realizing Rooms Grief Silence Darkness Four Wife Hair Horror Skins Response Appearance Violent Four Years Strokes Unpredictable Curls

Author:Sara Gruen

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

Long Moments Character Pain Joy Mother Father Lost Pleasure Grief Tears Sweet Broken Sacred Embrace Bitter Cups Solemn Recollection Orphan Sisters And Mothers Joy And Grief

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

Way Sometimes Moments Feelings Pain Next Loss Grief Week Periods Aging Painful Senses Tricks Realization Knees Unexpected Rip Protective

Book:Morning is a long time coming

Source: Morning is a long time coming

“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”

Children Pain Remember Suffering Jesus Grief Sorrow Kissing Pain And Suffering Loss Of A Parent

Author:Mother Teresa

“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”

Ifs Want Trying Doe Sometimes Pain Lasts Joy Memories Grief One Thing Comfort Grants Want To Be Happy

Author:Megan Hart

“On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.”

Hard Earth Pain Grief Cold Deeper Sweat Scar

Author:J. K. Rowling

“...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”

Ifs Way Helping Pain Grief Terrible Down And Burden Wounds Shoulders Grieving Bereavement

Book:The Book of Ruth

Source: The Book of Ruth

“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”

Feels Heart Soul Sometimes Use Pain Lying Language Given Sin Grief Brain Half Cold Exercise Clothes Dull Weed Mechanic Wraps Outlines Narcotics Numbing Heart And Brain

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.”

Men Kind Stills Different Soul Enough Pain Turns Loss Grief Heard Cry Goodness Clothes Skins Ears Stranger Rage Good Man Grief And Loss Scar Pillow Detectives Deep Inside Badges

Author:John Connolly

“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

Feels Care Pain Grief Sorrow Harry Potter Had Enough I Don't Care Anymore

Author:J. K. Rowling

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

Ifs Should Eye Pain Causes Grief Love Someone If You Love Someone

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.”

Way Feels Real Pain Hurt Loss Love Is Grief Love You Grief And Loss Real Love Deep Down Real Pain

Book:August Magic

Source: August Magic

“To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.”

Thinking Pain Grief Drinking Folly Melancholy Steep

Author:Alcaeus

“We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.”

Want Believe Stills Real Pain Values Turns I Believe Loss Grief Sad Standing Clouds Grieving Silver Standing There Real Value Being Sad

Author:John Green

“Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.”

Persons Pain Felt Rooms Grief Knowing Happened Doors Understood Ease Respectful

Book:The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.”

Source: The Passage

“But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!”

Men May Littles Stills Pain Joy Grief Prove Vain Schemes Mice Not Alone Foresight

Author:Robert Burns

“If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.”

Ifs Men Doe Pain Dies Waiting Hurt Loss Grief Fashion Wounds Heal Gray Accustomed Numb Bewilderment Gray Days

Book:Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

Source: Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

“The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85”

Heart May Helping Pain Universe Grief Compassion Greater Bears Comfort One Day Flow Let Me Embrace Ease Grieving Goddess Open Your Heart Greater Love

Book:The Calling: Book Seven

Source: The Calling: Book Seven

“Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.”

Ifs Men Giving Feels Pain Dies Hurt Grief Focus Terrible Spread Grieving Terrible Things

Book:Hit List

Source: Hit List

“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”

Pain Mother Left Voice Grief Sweet Misery Conviction

Author:Toni Morrison

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