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Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.
Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it.
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.
I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day.
Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.