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“Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.”

Believe Children Spirit Father Lost Felt Grief Taken Cry Tears Filled Granted Emptiness

Book:Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

“No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.”

Men Young Life Is Dies Courses Lost Hours Grief Break Taken Horse Very Good Young Man Necks Riding Honorable Ruined Saddles

Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.”

Grief Taken Figures Extraordinary Affection Reactions Queens Fierce Monarchy Iconic Diana Deep Affection

Author:Tony Blair

“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.”

“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

Feels Firsts I Can Body Running Young Certain House Grief Forever Taken Dying Poet Judgment Delight Lovely Back And Forth Down The Road Pints Running Back

Author:J. D. Salinger

“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

Heart Matter Lasts Certain Grief Healing Taken Sorrow Truth Is Breaths No Matter What Wounds Fades Fade Away Never Fade

Book:God-Shaped Hole: A Novel

Source: God-Shaped Hole: A Novel

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

Men Feels Grief Taken Youth Discouraging Ominous

Book:Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

Ifs Important Real Done Remember Felt Hours Memories Loss Pleasure Grief Taken Losing

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.”

Ifs Past Voice Grief Taken Let Me Old Friends Graystripe

Author:Erin Hunter

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”

Feels Mind Soul Left Language Grief Existence Taken Sadness Sky Taste Angel Absence Prophet Flavor Weeping Mourn

Author:Rumi

“A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

Seems Suffering Grief Sun Taken Sorrow Moon Seasons Niggard

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”

Body Beautiful Grief Taken Sorrow Clothes Naked Sweetness Jackets Rags Undressing Old Clothes

Author:Rumi