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“The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack”

World Loses Grief Pity Sympathy My Sympathy No Sympathy

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.”

Persons Grief Journey Unique Sympathy Snowflake Fingerprints

Author:Earl A Grollman

“No one really understands the grief or joy of another.”

Joy Grief Sympathy

Author:Franz Schubert

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”

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Author:William Wycherley

“Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.”

Joy Prayer Grief Tears Sorrow Encouragement Faults Excuse Misfortunes Sympathy Consolation

Author:Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

“When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.”

Grief Letters Genuine Sympathy Consolation Vacuous

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

Author:Washington Irving

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.”

“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”

“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…

“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”

People Needs Grief Discussion Sentiments Sympathy Frank Reserved

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.”

Should Grief Should Have Lovely Mourning Grief And Loss Sympathy Bereavement Griefing Grief Loss Grief And Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Mourning Loss Mourning A Loss

Author:William C. Bryant

“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

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Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

“To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own”

Giving Grief Prosperity Grieving Sympathy Rejoice Alleviate

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“For some moments in life there are no words.”

“For grief is crowned with consolation.”

Grief Sympathy Consolation Condolences

Author:William Shakespeare

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”

Doe Ends Grief Sympathy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.”

Heart Memories Grief Healing Sorrow Sympathy

Book:Letters of Marcel Proust

Source: Letters of Marcel Proust

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”

Memories Grief Affection Sympathy Bereavement Widowed

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses