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We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.
My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one.
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
I always believe that expressing grief on social media isn't enough, it is very important to take some action.
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.
When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition.
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.