#grief

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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Tears are the silent language of grief. ↗

— Voltaire

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Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. ↗

— Michelle Williams

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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

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

— Horace

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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

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