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• Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

  Alison Bechdel

  Sea, Design, Daedalus

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

  Richard Sibbes

  Running, Roots, Sorrow

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.51, Titus Books

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• A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Joy, May

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• They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Cancer, Life Is, Incredibles

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• Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

  Aeschylus

  Memories, Heart, Sleep

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• From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fear, Born

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• There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Suffering, Sorrow

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• Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Mean, Past

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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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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• The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

  Herodotus

  Destiny, Events, Hateful

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• Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

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• Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Eye

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• Avoid the question 'why me?.' It saves a lot of grief

  Wilhelmina Baird

  Why Me

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• When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Children, Fundamentals, Patterns

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

  Peter Orner

  Pain, Real, Character

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• Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

  Paula Sharp

  Loneliness, Moving, Loss

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Memories, Children, Thinking

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• I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about

  Alton Brown

  Talking, Fake, Being Real

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• Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

  Ann Brashares

  Three, Six Months, Rooms

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.117, Random House

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• Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Tears, Arrivals

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• But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Unrequited Love, Long, Feels

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• And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.

  Saddam Hussein

  Beautiful, Pain, Home

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• And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.

  Claire Messud

  Mother, Dream, Thinking

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• Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

  Margaret Laurence

  Men, Joy, Despair

  Margaret Laurence (1989). “Dance on the earth: a memoir”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Who was this Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief? Who is the King of glory, this Lord of hosts? He is our Master. He is our Savior. He is the Son of God. He is the Author of our Salvation. He beckons, “Follow me.” He instructs, “Go, and do thou likewise.” He pleads, “Keep my commandments.” Let us follow Him. Let us emulate His example. Let us obey His word. By so doing, we give to Him the divine gift of gratitude.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Kings, Son

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