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“The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.”

Grief Virtue Exercise Useless Deprivation

Book:Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters

Source: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters

“The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.”

Grief Losing Useless Dna Blokes Losing Myself

Author:Beth Orton

“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.”

Ifs Knows Feels Important Death Lost Felt Loss Grief Know How Imagine Havens Terrible Useless Violet Sunny Lost Someone

Author:Daniel Handler

“Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.”

Ifs Writing Stories Would Be Grief Useless Obsessed Compelled

Book:The Tea Rose: A Novel

Source: The Tea Rose: A Novel

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

People Feels Grief Comfort Selfish Useless Grieving

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”

Stills Care Suffering Grief Anxiety Useless Stunned Swollen

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.”

Feels Persons Made Grief Useless

Book:The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy