Abuse Quote by John Adams

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has…

— John Adams

“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...”

— Barry Unsworth

“For, in those centuries, when numbers of children died in the cradle and half the women in childbirth, when epidemics ravaged adult life, when…

— Maurice Druon

“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it…

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

“Fairness demanded that grief should find succor, that wounds should heal, insult and confusion find recompense and certainty, that every living person God had…

— Alice McDermott

“The bloodiest tragedies in the world have been acted on the stage of the church; and the most inhuman massacres and butcheries committed on…

— William Gurnall

“Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught…

— Émile Zola

“The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses…

— Gail Caldwell

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the…

— Salman Rushdie

“Grief is an animal you can never quite tame: after a long silence in the shadows, it may stir again and scratch open the…

— Emmi Itäranta

“Death did this to people: making cowards, scapegoats, preachers and mourners of the living; while the dead – ignoble or not – became objects…

— Meghna Pant