"Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one……" — Elizabeth McCracken
"Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving."
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20 Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site.
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It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
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Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either…
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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze,…
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On…
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the…
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Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't…
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After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and…
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but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited…
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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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