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“Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him”

Men Years Firsts Doe Age Pleasure Grief Cases Depends Sensations First Love Fourteen

Author:Charles Kingsley

“There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.”

Knows Hands Grief Seasons Painful Christmas Midst Sensations Rejoice Mirth Deep Grief

Book:Traits of American Life

Source: Traits of American Life

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.”

World Might Pain Passion Found Grief Existence Situation Sun Tree Bird Illusion Concern Green Structure Familiar Sensations Surroundings Tess Tess Of The D Urbervilles

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles

Source: Tess of the D'urbervilles

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”

Source: A Grief Observed

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.”

Feels Enough Moments Hands Seems Faces Grief Danger Walking Safe Rivers Breaths Presses Intense Ice These Days Sensations Frozen Plunge

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.”

Wisdom Felt Grief Sensations Stomach Not Afraid Being Afraid Restlessness Swallowing Fluttering Yawning Grief Observed

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.”

People Knows Mean Pain Grief Sensations Numbness

Author:Veronica Roth

“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”

Philosophy Body Hands Powerful Grief Compassion Medicine Senses Sensations Thirst Soma Upper Hand

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

Mean Real Pain Passion Evil Grief Sensations Complaints Owing

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.”

Way Needs Persons Joy Grief Skins Fingers Sensations Irrelevant Garments Joy And Grief

Author:Kate Grenville