Grieving Quote by Simon Blackburn

“We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.”

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.…

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... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving…

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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his…

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“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

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In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

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