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“In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.”

Real Values Loss Grief Objects Bears Fancy Proportion Real Value

Book:The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads

Source: The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads

“Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.”

Giving Light Form Grief Objects Color All Things Fantastic Woe Sustenance

Book:The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Memories Grief Objects Affection Delight Absence Impression Intense Poignant Widowed

Author:James Martineau

“Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.”

Hate Goal Grief Share Objects Destruction Hatred Anger Peers Fury Distortion

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”

Men Needs Force Loss Grief Fire Objects Circumstances Tests Absolutes Endure Absence Separation Beloved Indifference Crucible Grief Loss

Book:Max

Source: Max

“The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.”

Life Life Is Wish Grief Objects Consequence Disappointment Petty Incidents

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“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