Grief Quotes — Page 31

Philosopher, Historian

“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”

Running Eye Grief

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Barbara Kingsolver

Author, Biologist

“I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.”

Writing Character Grief

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet, Novelist

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

Grief Hopeless

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Euripides

Playwright

“Youth holds no society with grief.”

Time Grief

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Petrarch

Poet, Scholar

“Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief”

Grief Argument

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet, Novelist

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach”

Men Air Grief

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet, Novelist

“Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.”

Heaven Grief Sorrow

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet, Novelist

“O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.”

Names Brother Grief

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Emily Dickinson

Poet

“The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity”

Heart Morning Grief

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Edith Wharton

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

Grief Rose Raindrops

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Daniel Abraham

Author

“That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.”

Pain Done Grief

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Aeschylus

Playwright

“Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.”

Heart Memories Grief

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