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"The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank."

Janet Morris

Horse, Grief, Death, Prayer, Ritual
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All things grow with time -- except grief.

Grief
3

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Rebecca West

Grief
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de La Bruyère

Grief
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grief
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.

William Shakespeare

Grief
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Grief is light that is capable of counsel.

Grief
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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Grief
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief
10

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

Gregory Nunn

Grief
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grief
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In all the silent manliness of grief.

Oliver Goldsmith

Grief
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

Grief
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Simone Weil

Grief
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No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

Ogden Nash

Grief
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No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

Emil Cioran

Grief
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Seneca the Younger

Grief
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

Grief
20

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...

Orison Swett Marden

Grief
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Patch grief with proverbs.

William Shakespeare

Grief
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

George Eliot

Grief
23

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

James Russell Lowell

Grief
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Seneca the Younger

Grief
25

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Cyril Connolly

Grief
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There is not grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Grief
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

Grief
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Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Grief
29

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. -- Psalms 30:5

Grief
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Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Grief
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Henry David Thoreau

Grief
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

John Berger

Grief
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Samuel Johnson

Grief
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Grief

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"The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank."

All things grow with time -- except grief.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.

Grief is light that is capable of counsel.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...

Patch grief with proverbs.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

There is not grief that does not speak.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. -- Psalms 30:5

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.