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“Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”

Grief Advantage Selfish Dishonor

Author:Plutarch

“Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.”

Challenges Loss Grief Forever Missing Circumstances Selfish Curious Contradiction

Author:Victoria Redel

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

Men Self Hate Grief Disappointment Ugly Selfish Pity Bitterness Self Pity

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?”

Grief Tears Selfish Unhappiness

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

People Feels Grief Comfort Selfish Useless Grieving

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.”

Heart Made Joy Force Grief Pride My Heart Waste Hatred Distance Prepared Terror Revenge Rage Selfish Pursuit Crowns Savages Helplessness

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems