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Grief

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Grief

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."

Fear Grief Yawning
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Grief

"For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time."

Cutting Loss Grief
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Alice Miller Psychologist, Author
Grief

"Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing."

Real Grief Healing
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Sara Gilbert Actress
Grief

"I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner."

Pain Love Is Grief
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Stendhal Novelist
Grief

"Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it."

Feelings Grief Suicide
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Louise Hay Author, Motivational Speaker
Grief

"Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Remember that you come into this world in the middle of the movie, and you leave in the middle; and so do the people you love. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss."

Heart Loss Grief
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Grief

"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."

Gratitude Grief Short Life
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Grief

"So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness."

Pain Grief Loneliness
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