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“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”

Grief Silence Cutting Dog Bones Clock Piano Grieving Funeral Telephones Coffins Juicy Those Grieving Death Poems Grief Comfort Comfort The Grieving Grieving Poems Condolences Poems

Author:W. H. Auden

“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”

Certain Grief Secret Silence Bears Sorrow Load Silence Is Tokens

Book:The Ministry of Song

Source: The Ministry of Song

“It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.”

World Given Grief Silence Noise Noisy

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage”

Writing Grief Silence Rage

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.”

Mind Children Father Sleep Grief Silence Sweet Kings Approach Mortals Host Sole Indifferent Oppressed Shepherds Comforter

Author:William Drummond

“After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.”

People Lost Grief Silence Minutes Worst Honor Empathy Victim Our Society October Bombing Ankara

Author:Elif Safak

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

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Author:Sara Gruen

“Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.”

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Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.”

Want Doe I Can Soul Moments Grief Silence Cry Silent Horrible My Soul Pierce

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.”

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Author:Pat Conroy

“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

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Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

“We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.”

Ifs Has Beens Able Suffering Grief Silence Bears

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.”

Grief Silence Shame Silence Is Secrecy Majesty

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”

Next Grief Silence One Day Heavy Loud Lazy Wounded Next Day Numbness Underwater

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“In all the silent manliness of grief.”

Grief Silence Silent Manliness

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the afterglow of sunset, like the silence that comes after prayer.”

Has Beens Home Christ Memories Prayer Grief Silence Sorrow Comfort Blessing Burden Accepted Gentle Household Sweetest Benediction

Author:J.R. Miller

“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”

Light Care Speak Grief Silence Strive Dumb Woe

Book:Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc

Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc

“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.”

Soul Lying Grief Silence Shadow Manners Pet Unseen Lament Tortured Souls

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.”

Self Grief Silence Divine Solutions Wounds Heal Bliss Diamond Wholeness Splendor

Author:Andrew Harvey

“And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.”

People Men Together Understanding Grief Silence Century Speech Hatred Tragedy Blind Bounds Terror Tongue Dumb Spokes Twentieth Century Lack Of Understanding

Book:Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Source: Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

“It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.”

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Author:Jack Kornfield

“Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.”

Grief Silence Remains Funeral

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear