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“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.”

Thinking Heart Long Feelings Night Literature Sleep Grief My Heart Universal Wake Up Shock Waking All Night Assassination Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.”

People Ifs Feelings Grief Setting Familiar Block Settings Posts Shock Again And Again Frontiers Grim

Author:C. S. Lewis

“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

“I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Walks Grief Attention Flower Losing Doctors Legs Cards Shock Nurse Loved Ones Sooner Or Later Losing A Loved One Anesthetics Painkillers Doctors And Nurses

Author:Ruth Graham

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Children Has Beens Wanted Loss Grief Stage My Children Shock Disbelief

Author:Elin Nordegren

“These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.”

Thinking Should Years Kind States Pain Next Individual President Hours Grief Happened Tragedy Eight Enormous Locals Shooting Officials Shock Motivated Reach Out Staff Mayors Forts Coordination

Author:Barack Obama

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

Feelings Grief Conditions Distance Disaster Shock Merciful

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie...it's not..." Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his heel and began to run away. "OLIVER, please,let me explain.”

Looks Eye Running Faces Felt Grief Secret Known Too Much Streets Fronts Bears Please Pure Shots Standing Hatred Let Me Careful Staring Shock Throat Running Away Heels Dismay

Author:Melissa de la Cruz

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”

Way Might Rooms Grief Moved Shock

Book:The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.”

Three President Grief Emotion Worst Stage Acceptance Anger Following Terrorist Confusion Soil Shock Defiance Terrorist Attacks President George W Bush Sept 11 Raw Emotion

Author:Ron Fournier

“You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.”

Life Believe Ends Feelings Grief Shock Tape

Book:Mezzanine

Source: Mezzanine