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“I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'”

Want Life Made Ends Sometimes Able Joy Answers Grief End Of Life

Author:Liv Ullmann

“Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?”

Want Two Next Grief This Life Islamic Everlasting Hereafter

Author:Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”

Want Grief Echoes Hollow

Book:In the Country of Men

Source: In the Country of Men

“I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Kind Grief Talking Fake Being Real Sommelier

Author:Alton Brown

“I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.”

Want Feelings Sex Grief Terrible Mess Hips Knees Heat Confusing Fists Trembling Thighs Looseness Diarrhoea

Book:The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”

Source: William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids

“In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.”

Want Doe Life Is Order Sex Grief Sorrow Command Mail Request Coerce

Book:Sita

Source: Sita

“Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain. Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, Through hunger's pangs does the feast content, And only the heart that has harboured trouble Can fully rejoice when joy is sent. Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife, For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics Are found in the minor strains of life.”

Knows Want Needs Heart Doe Soul Moments Pain Joy Asks Found Loss Grief Trouble Sweet Praying Sorrow Gains Lifetime Hunger Bitter Rejoice Yearning Minors Strife Strain Chords Shrinks Morrow

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.”

Knows Want Needs Children Done Night Interest Grief Despair Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Where You Live

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

People Knows Want Humans Helping Pain Common Grief Behinds Steps Sadness Share Achievement Stranger Human Experience Common Denominator Lack Of Love

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.”

Way Want Soul Eye Water Grief Fire Tree Caught Storm Dust Fragile Yellow Scream Agony Rabbits Frogs Drought Indestructible Pollen

Author:Deena Metzger