Victor Hugo Quotes, Grief Quotes, Plunge Quotes

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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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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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

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And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Grief Quotes , Heart Quotes

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

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Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.

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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

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

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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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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Grief Quotes , Heart Quotes

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Spring Quotes , Grief Quotes

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Grief Quotes , Heart Quotes

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.

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Tags : Aime Cesaire Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Grief Quotes

Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

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

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Grief Quotes

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Grief Quotes

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

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