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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Air, Midnight

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

  Homer

  Drinking, Passion, Wine

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• This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Book, Soul, Darkness

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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• To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Joy, Boon

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• The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Gallantry

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• The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?

  Sarada Devi

  Joy, Sorrow, Creation

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

  Sergio Aragones

  Sadness, Train Of Thought, Separation

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• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

  Ron Fournier

  Anger, Acceptance, Confusion

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• You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

  Phil McGraw

  Pain, Remembrance, Needs

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• What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Fighting, Men

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Differences, People

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.80, Penguin

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Knowledge, Men, Becoming

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Yellow, Green, Melancholy

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Pain, Father

  Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

  Ann Voskamp

  Light, Work Out, Grace

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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Strong, Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Light, Dumb

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.124, A&C Black

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• Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!

  Octavius Winslow

  Sweet, Forever, Cups

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• Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Hair

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891). A similar quotation appears inWilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1 (1895).

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Laughter, Eye

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

  Paul Lynde

  Dad, Lying, Hate

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• In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.

  David Richo

  Grieving, Land, Feelings

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Laughter, Heart

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1284, Bantam

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