#grief

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. ↗

— Joy Page

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. ↗

— Ann Richards

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I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#enlighten #flashes #fought #grief #i

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. ↗

— John Ford

#griefs #silent #which

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man. ↗

— Kesha

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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#again #bid #days #death #echo

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#contain #death #eighty #every #grief

But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#grief #healing #laura-anderson-kurk #love #romance