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“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.”

Body Joy Fall Sides Grief Mystery Fields Ready Summer Glory Rose Lifetime Fishes Seeds Boat Shock Sand Silver Willingness Pale Leafs Submission Unfathomable

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

People Thinking Pain Life Is Religious Grief Greater Trouble Mines Comfort Weight Rose Aids Affliction Torment Consolation Martyr Solace

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.”

Grief Rose Disaster Forests Burning Grieving Playwright Essayists Moralist Forest Fires

Book:The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

Source: The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

“...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief”

Looks Next Black Grief Middle Rose Sorry Suits Spots Queens Designer Formal I'm Sorry Fashionable Middle Aged Rose Hathaway

Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

“I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.”

Sometimes Matter Done Helping Moving Grief Moved Rose Ancient

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“I don't want to. Believe me. But I can't help it. Rose said in time, I'll learn the control to keep his feelings out, but I can't do it now. And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place. What happened between him and Rose . . . it tears him apart.”

Want Feels Believe Said I Can Helping Feelings Grief Emotion Happened Tears Rose Believe In Me Up And Down Sydney

Book:Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Earth Beautiful Grief Magic Sky Tears Quiet Flow Rose Snow Touched Petals So Sad Rift

Author:Dylan Thomas

“The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.”

Firsts Has Beens Stills Seems Grief Saws Tree Rose Clean Pity Shattered Drained Sad Day

Book:Millay: Poems

Source: Millay: Poems

“And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.”

Men Way Father House Memories Grief Feet Rose Killing Achilles Sobbing Iliad Patroclus Hector Priam

Author:Homer

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

Grief Rose Warm Beaten Stains Raindrops

Book:House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence

Source: House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence

“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.”

Two War Moments Pain Life Is Joy Pleasure Grief Flower Rose Honey Bees Nevertheless Gathering Cleverness Intervals Diligent Pain And Pleasure Mosaics

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.”

Looks Soul Running Pain Grief Stones Rose Running Away Remedy Rubies

Author:Rumi