#grief

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

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Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away. ↗

— Charles Bracelen Flood

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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

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Grief causes suffering and disease. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

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I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

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

— John Ford

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. ↗

— Christopher Morley

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