"If ever I said in grief or pride,……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied."
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160 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay has 160 quotes on this site.
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned,…
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep,…
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel
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Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass…
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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient…
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death…
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us…
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
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More Grief Quotes
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
— Kathleen Battle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
— Martha Beck
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
— Aeschylus
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for…
— William Blake
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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 Bruyere
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to…
— Alcaeus
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
— William S. Burroughs
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that…
— Lord Byron
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