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“So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

Source: A Grief Observed

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

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Author:Aeschylus

“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

Source: Complete Works

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

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Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

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Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”

“Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”

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Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“For some moments in life there are no words.”

“Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.”

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Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

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Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals