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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!"
"I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me."
"You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live."
"If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble."
"Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side."
"In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda."
"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?"
"I can't go on. I'll go on."
"These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?"
"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world."
"You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care."
"The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"
"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."
"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."
"In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life."
"Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain."
"Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men."
"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it."
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
