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“For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!”

Men Real Seems Joy Grief Blood Flesh Rings Bitter Toys Torment Trash Pills Flesh And Blood

Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping”

House Sleep Grief Doors Air Blow Disappear Rings Bells

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.”

Littles Grief Sorrow Weight Heavy Rings Bells Doleful

Author:William Shakespeare

“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

Evil Grief Tears Sorrow Sad Rings Fellowship Criminal Mind Frodo Griefing Middle Earth Grief Loss Frodo Baggins Return Of The King Death Grief Grief And Death Lord Of The Ring Galadriel

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.”

Lying Grief Sun Gold Rings

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”

Heart Forget Grief Teach Rings

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

House Grows Sleep Grief Doors Air Wall Protect Mirrors Forgotten Blow Disappear Rings Chairs Bells Protect You Younger Sister

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

Years Kind May Said Stills Seems Lasts Dies Grows Born Grief Written Tree Spread Rings Tricks Relax Grain Last Year Leafs Castles Bud Like Something Born Again Thickness Thresh

Book:Poesía reunida

Source: Poesía reunida

“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

Heart Lying Song Simple Grief Cutting Sea Dog Wind Broken Bird Blow Wounds Tiny Rings Holes Bells Salt Cracked Clutch Stray Dogs

Author:Michael Leunig

“Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.”

Mind Grief Rings Sap

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson