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“How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!”

Heart Dream Grief Land Return Sorrow Heavy Disaster Oblivion Mute Morrow Slumber Deceptive Wailing

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”

“The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.”

Heart God Christian Moving Grief Return Despair Draws Saint Casts Surface Thanks Sinner Thank God Bosoms Metamorphosis Thanks God

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”

Humans Heart Long Hurt Grief Journey Return Dare Human Heart Anguish Being Hurt

Author:Lillian Smith

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”

Firsts Together Suffering Loss Grief Our Lives Childhood Return Periods Anguish Early Childhood

Book:A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.”

Moving Grief Return Ears Tongue

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.”

Want Firsts Persons Made Stills Remember Felt Forget Grief Alive Tree Return Losing Endure More Time Small Things Wire Embedded Bearable Losing Someone Barbed Wire

Author:Ron Rash

“In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!”

May States Wealth Prayer Grief Doubt Source Return Blessing Difficulty Bounds Available Ships Temptation Sail Thrones Sigh Dilemma Straight Up Doubt And Fear All State Outward Bound

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.”

Real Moments Faces Grief Return Safe Rivers Instinct Intuition Wounds Real Life Grants Tides Indigenous Sanctuary Momentary Safe Places

Book:The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

“Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells May Doe Might Action Suffering Term Grief Return Consequence Afghanistan Contemplating

Author:Geoff Hoon

“Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.”

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Author:Nicholas Delbanco

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.”

Long Doe Moments Seems Pain Suffering Grief Records Progress Return Sorrow Seasons Rounds Circles Mood Divides Chronicles

Book:Works: Edited with an Introduction

Source: Works: Edited with an Introduction

“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.”