"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
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"It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
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"The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain."
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"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul."
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"What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?"
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"Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound."
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"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."
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"a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance."
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"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy."
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"It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward."
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"Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."
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"I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
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"There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness."
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"Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns."
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"You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence."
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"I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men."
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"There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth."
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"Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words."
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."
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