#grief

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

— Aeschylus

#great #grief #joy #memory #pain

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#cannot #change #come #committed #crimes

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. ↗

— Mary Astell

#commit #endure #greater #greatest #grief

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What. ↗

— John Green

#grief #life #life-and-death #death

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. ↗

— William Adams

#children #christ #conscience #entreat #fatherless

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#aggravating #another #calamity #common #condition

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#come #dumb #griefs #his #light

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart? ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#friendship #grief #heart #worry #death

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #divorce #dying #god #grief