"Grief is a process, not a state."
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"I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed."
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"Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any."
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"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
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"I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving."
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"To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief"
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"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."
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"The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due."
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"Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant."
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
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"He who is resolute conquers grief."
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"Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief."
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"At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain."
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"We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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"Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched."
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"Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state."
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"The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses."
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"I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art."
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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another."
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"Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts."
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