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“Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.”

Feelings Grief Healing Quality Sadness Awareness Profound Depth Threshold

Book:Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

“The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.”

“Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.”

Littles Pain Wonder Sadness Profound Soldier Prisoner Defeated Wounded Overwhelmed Temperament Captured Resilient Southerner Wounded Soldier Profound Sadness

Book:Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'”

Way Should Looks Body Black Results Opinion Sadness Conditions Events Responsible Profound Reasoning Stomach Unhealthy Profound Sadness

Author:Emile Chartier

“I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.”

People Knows Writing Kind Interesting Sadness Periods Depression Profound Heartache People With Depression Profound Sadness

Author:Richard Marx

“Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.”

Heart Today Earth Sadness Gratitude Sad Remains Profound Seeds Immortality Joyful Being Joyful

Book:John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor

Source: John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor

“For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.”

Real Moments Sadness Strange Silent Profound Intuition Reverence Mixtures

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.”

Moments Sadness Profound Summoning Profound Sadness

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”

Ifs Joy Friendship Loss Sadness Dog Profound Pet Pet Loss Dog Loss Profound Sadness

Author:Marjorie Garber

“The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his wife. A profound sadness settled over the earth...God was silent in every language. The angels tried to dry their tears, but their handkerchiefs were so soaked through that is started raining even in the deserts.”

Men Hands Eye Earth Language Heaven Wife Sadness Tears Angel Rain Silent Profound Desert Dry Covered Handkerchiefs Angel In Heaven Profound Sadness

Author:Guus Kuijer

“Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.”

May Loss Sadness Absolutes Profound Terrorism Innocent Rejection September Cuba September 11 Lament Innocent Life Profound Sadness

Author:Felipe Perez Roque

“Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.”

Life Inspiration Joy Sadness Profound Intense Ecstasy Agony Profound Sadness

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.”

Beautiful Ability Sadness Profound Beautiful Life

Author:Nicole Kidman