"Hope is incredible to the slave of grief." — Petrarch
"Hope is incredible to the slave of grief."
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Petrarch
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50 Quotes by Petrarch
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be…
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and…
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am…
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this…
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was…
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment…
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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…
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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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