#grief

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. ↗

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ↗

— Moliere

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ↗

— Ovid

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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. ↗