Anton Chekhov Quotes, Grief Quotes, Heart Quotes

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Work Quotes , Grief Quotes

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Grief Quotes , Loss Quotes

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

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Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grief Quotes , Grieving Quotes

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Pain Quotes , Grief Quotes

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Grief Quotes , Taken Quotes

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Grief Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Grief Quotes , Mind Quotes

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fall Quotes , Grief Quotes

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grief Quotes , Yellow Quotes

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Grief Quotes , Past Quotes

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

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