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For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.
Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.
...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.
Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.