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“That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.”

Way Persons Made Said Done Pain Used Can Do Grief Finished Chores

Author:Daniel Abraham

“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.”

Knows Might Pain Order Difficult Christ Walks Grief Know How Path Sadness Bears Sorrow Burden Shoulders Mortals Lifts Als Compassionate Anguish Behalf Difficult Times Poignant Valiant Lds

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.”

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Book:Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

Source: Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

“You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.”

Way Pain Loss Walks Grief Path Feet Daughter Betrayal Trials Forests Straight Path

Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.”

World Might Pain Passion Found Grief Existence Situation Sun Tree Bird Illusion Concern Green Structure Familiar Sensations Surroundings Tess Tess Of The D Urbervilles

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles

Source: Tess of the D'urbervilles

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

People May Moments Pain Fear Grief Flow Filled Brutal

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.”

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.”

Enough Seems Pain Courses Grief Compassion Cold Victory Exercise Blame Cruelty Over It Sufferers Getting Over It

Book:Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free

Source: Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free

“And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.”

People Knows Way Trying Long Care Pain Lasts Joy Loses Hurt Grief Greater Protect Losing Lifetime It Hurts Way To Live Staggering Something You Love

Book:Fated

Source: Fated

“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

“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Helping Eye Pain Moving Suffering Culture Waiting Loss Grief Morning Bears Letting Go Disease Burden Witness Mourning Cheer Live Well Cheer Up Being Sad Avert

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.”

Care Pain Suffering Grief Healing I Care Darling Thich Nhat Hanh

Book:Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

“I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.”

“What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better”

Knows Trying Mind I Can Moments Dream Pain Together Next Loses Hurt Grief Wind Listening Thousand Window Skins Glasses Seeds Wounds Get Better Echoes Next Time Battered Dandelions

Author:Andrea Gibson

“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.”

Pain Language Memories Grief Tongue Vain Vocabulary Wags

Book:The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi

Source: The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi

“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.”

Feels Kind Feelings Body Pain Levels Grief Mercy Scar Severe Numbness

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.”

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Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.”

People Knows Mean Pain Grief Sensations Numbness

Author:Veronica Roth

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

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Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”

Pain Grief Sadness Sad Calmness

Author:Ovid

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.”

Doe Age Pain Grief Prophet Serenity

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.”

Ifs Enough Age Pain Joy Realizing Love Is Grief Corners Around The Corner Enough Pain

Author:Sara Gilbert

“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.”

Pain Suffering Spirituality Difficult Grief Periods Gains Cancer Spiritual Awareness Knowledge And Experience

Book:Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

Source: Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

“I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.”

“Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.”

Pain Joy Grief Disease Carpe Diem Carpe

Book:The Art of Preserving Health

Source: The Art of Preserving Health

“Grief is itself a medicine.”

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Author:William Cowper

“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.”

Men Pain Joy Grief Disappointment Schemes Mice Gang

Author:Robert Burns

“I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.”

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Author:Charles Wesley

“To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.”

Mean Feelings Pain Grief Arms Becoming Oneself Grieving Length Living Fully

Book:The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide

Source: The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide

“Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.”

Knows Men Wells Pain Joy Pleasure Grief Brain Tears Ought Sorrow Laughter Arise Brain Science Absent Mindedness

Author:Hippocrates

“One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”

Use Motivational Pain Can Do Grief Without Pain

Author:Bernie Siegel

“But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!”

Men May Art Pain Joy Grief Prove Philosophical Vain Schemes Mice Gang Lanes Foresight Best Laid Plans

Book:The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

Source: The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

“The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.”

Way Life Helping Pain Remember Joy Grief Sorrow Mindfulness Temporary Here And Now Live In The Present Way To Live Mindful Living Pain And Sorrow This Too Shall Pass

Author:Joey Green

“That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

Inspirational Pain Stars Felt Powerful Grief Demand Hipster Grief And Healing Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars

Author:John Green

“Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts-and it may be the greatest pain in life-grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.”

Love May Ends Matter Whole Pain Process Natural Hurt Grief Healing Steps Expression Pure Disorder Gestures It Hurts Something Better Healing Process Expressions Of Love Pain In Life

Author:Gerald May

“Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.”

“Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.”

Pain Faith Can Do Loss Grief Fire Draws Poison Quench

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.”

Men Life Years Hands Light Pain Night Heaven Pleasure Grief Hell Tears Flower Summer Shadow Madness Breaths Endure Glasses Ran Fallen Remembrance Risen Shadow Of Death

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.”

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Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.”

Pain Grief Ten And Love Burden Rage Absence Variety Undone Hopes And Fears

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?”

Ifs Pain Grief What If

Book:Our Andromeda

Source: Our Andromeda

“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

Mean Real Pain Passion Evil Grief Sensations Complaints Owing

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due.”

Way Giving Pain Past Grief Increase Misery Illness Dues Mental Illness Acknowledge Going Away Compounds

Author:Jasinda Wilder

“I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.”

Knows Looks Pain Loss Grief Easier Sad Abuse Relentless Irrevocable Irreversible

Book:The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life

Source: The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.”

Real Character Pain Humanity Energy Loss Grief Honest Losing Flawed Catharsis Losing Someone

Author:Peter Orner

“Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again”

Long Pain Grief Arms True Love My True Love

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.”

World Feels Should Home Pain Beautiful Suffering Grief Path Building Weapons Solutions Iraq Destroyed Owners September Palestine September 11 Right Path Lebanon Skyscraper Your Beautiful

Author:Saddam Hussein