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“From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.”

Needs Three Memories Perfect Grief One Thing Remains Cups

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”

Feels Heart Doe Ends Pain Suffering Dies Causes Black Grief Compassion Grace Sadness Gold And Love Remains Intense Layers Pearls Coins Resignation Kernel Black Pearl

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.”

Mind Loses Chance Grief Remains Passive Recovering Elasticity

Author:Charles Darwin

“In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.”

Grief Youth Remains Winter Miserable Pool Resisting Overflow Evaporation

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”

“A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.”

Ifs Littles Grief Worst Angel Perfection Remains Disappointment Bitter Only Time Whiskey Time Will Tell Only Time Will Tell

Author:Paula Wall

“We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.”

Ifs Needs Care America Given Grief Struggle Seeing Promise Quiet Remains Terrorism Take Care Turkeys Own Business

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”

Grief Remains Temperament Plunge Marius Cosette

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains. Once a man does the things you're talking about, he will never be the same, and he can never go back to who he was before. Worst of all, no matter how many enemies you kill, you are never satisfied. There is always one more who deserves it. When it becomes too easy to kill, it never ends.”

Thinking Men Doe Ends Matter Done Easy Pleasure Grief Talking Enemy Worst Glory Deserve Remains Revenge Satisfied

Author:Richard Kadrey

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.”

Ifs Knows May Matter Change Loses Loss Grief Stage No Matter What Remains Filled Grieving Mourning Gaps Substitutes Nevertheless Griefing Grief And Mourning Mourning Loss Mourning A Loss

Author:Sigmund Freud

“There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.”

Giving May Age Differences Grief Share Youth Sorrow Remains Burden Old Age Grieving

Book:The Trimmed Lamp

Source: The Trimmed Lamp

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.”

People Giving Stills Dies Fall Waiting Lines Grief Alive Judgment Miracle Remains Grieving

Book:Solo

Source: Solo

“Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.”

Grief Silence Remains Funeral

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?”