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“To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.”

Feels Would Be Faces Grief Wonder Written Over You Your Face Taboo Mourn Strangeness Fathom Bruised Hieroglyphics

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."”

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Book:For They Shall Be Comforted

Source: For They Shall Be Comforted

“If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].”

Ifs Would Be Grief Written Inward Brows Envied

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.”

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Author:Franz Schubert

“But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.”

Writing Enough Stories Grief Saws Written Bed Labor Dull Weeping

Author:Winifred Holtby

“If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?”

Ifs Men Grief Written Objects Envy Every Man Pity Internals Foreheads

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.”

Ifs Whole Seems Would Be Happiness Grief Written Mere Breasts Inward Foe Brows Seeming Envied

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.”

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Author:Frederick Buechner

“Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).”

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Author:Laura Mullen

“I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.”

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Author:John Darnielle

“O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?”

Knows Hands Lasts Faces Voice Hours Grief Saws Written Changed Strange Careful

Book:The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

“The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

Years Kind May Said Stills Seems Lasts Dies Grows Born Grief Written Tree Spread Rings Tricks Relax Grain Last Year Leafs Castles Bud Like Something Born Again Thickness Thresh

Book:Poesía reunida

Source: Poesía reunida