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Quotes about grief
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. (Berger John)
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. (Berger John)
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. (Berger John)
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. (Berger John)
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. (Berger John)
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream. (Berger John)
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. (Berger John)
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. (Berger John)
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. (Berger John)
Time takes away the grief of men. (Berger John)
In all the silent manliness of grief. (Berger John)
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. (Berger John)
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. (Berger John)
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. (Berger John)
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. (Berger John)
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. (Berger John)
The only cure for grief is action. (Berger John)
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. (Berger John)
There is not grief that does not speak. (Berger John)
Sorrow is the great idealizer. (Berger John)
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us... (Berger John)
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. (Berger John)
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. (Berger John)
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood, (Berger John)
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. (Berger John)
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