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““Now courting’s a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief!””

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“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.”

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“For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.”

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“I had before me an object lesson, I thought: two ways to face the world. One way as embodied by this old woman—simple, unassuming,…

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“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”

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“My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.”

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“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will…

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“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.”

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You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

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... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

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You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…

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“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become…

Susan Barbara Apollon

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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That Woman is in love with her own grief.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger…

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