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title: "1 Feel Grief Quotes By Gerald Brenan"
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> [We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-soon-cease-to-feel-the-grief-at-the-deaths-of-our-friends-yet-we/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

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## More by Gerald Brenan

> [“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/it-is-by-sitting-down-to-write-every-morning-that-one-becomes-a-writer/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/every-writer-and-artist-wonders-what-in-the-world-people-of-other/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/words-are-as-recalcitrant-as-circus-animals-and-the-unskilled-trainer/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-are-closer-to-the-ants-than-to-the-butterflies-very-few-people-can/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/in-a-happy-marriage-it-is-the-wife-who-provides-the-climate-the/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/miller-is-not-really-a-writer-but-a-non-stop-talker-to-whom-someone/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/one-road-to-happiness-is-to-cultivate-curiosity-about-everything-not/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/old-age-takes-away-from-us-what-we-have-inherited-and-gives-us-what/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/when-i-write-a-page-that-reads-badly-i-know-that-it-is-myself-who-has/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [A bad memory is the mother of invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/a-bad-memory-is-the-mother-of-invention/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-should-all-live-as-if-we-were-never-going-to-die-for-it-is-the/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-soon-cease-to-feel-the-grief-at-the-deaths-of-our-friends-yet-we/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-confess-our-bad-qualities-to-others-out-of-fear-of-appearing-naive/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/wisdom-is-keeping-a-sense-of-fallibility-of-all-our-views-and-opinions/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/one-of-the-marks-of-a-great-poet-is-that-he-creates-his-own-family-of/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

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