"Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing……" — Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire."
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18 Quotes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw,…
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Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance…
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank,…
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their…
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might…
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t…
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
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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.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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.
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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…
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to…
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that…
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