Quotes 41 till 60 of 83.
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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) -
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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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.
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Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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