#grief

Tears are the silent language of grief. ↗

— Voltaire

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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#child #felt #grief #i #kind

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. ↗

— James Wolcott

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By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

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For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very. ↗

— Jon Hamm

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ↗

— Horace

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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. ↗

— Aberjhani

#despair #grief #national-poetry-month #pain #peace-movement

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

— Sergio Aragones

#happens #i #middle #personal #sadness

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience