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Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.


Elizabeth McCracken

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Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsur...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Grief makes one hour ten
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keepi...
ANNE GRANT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.
ALISON BECHDEL If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
EMILY GIFFIN I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
GERRY ADAMS I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief ...
MATT CARLE I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chan...
LAUREN OLIVER Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like sta...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
ALANIS MORISSETTE The grief they have experienced has made them more empathetic to the grief of others,
BILL DOYLE My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like cr...
JOHN GREEN It does not make it any harder (for SE2) but I am not sure it makes it that much easier, either.
PATRICIA ROSS Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
JOHN GREEN I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an...
EMILY DICKINSON Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
HONDURAN PROVERB Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Grief does not demand pity; It requests acknowledgement" - Jude Gibbs
JUDE GIBBS Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
ADAM SILVERA Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, gri...
ILONA ANDREWS There is not grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Grief is a process, not a state.
ANNE GRANT Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that tre...
ARTHUR BENNETT The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibil...
PATTI DAVIS On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS Grief is grief. It's always a little backwards when a young person dies, regardless of their age.
DONNA DEEDS In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It...
FRANCIS WELLER While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than w...
EDWARD HIRSCH A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first le...
LLOYD ALEXANDER Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sorrow and the scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather; Ah me! this glory and this grief...
THOMAS W. PARSONS What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back;...
THOMAS MANN But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm ...
EMERY LORD Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a p...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grief is a gift. It makes us stop and be aware of the other person's significance. It makes us stop ...
JOHN B. BEJO Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Tears are the silent language of grief.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In all the silent manliness of grief.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Time takes away the grief of men.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Tears are the silent language of grief.
VOLTAIRE Tears are the silent language of grief
VOLTAIRE It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect...
HILARY THAYER HAMANN The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
THORNTON WILDER Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
KEANU REEVES People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have...
JOAN DIDION Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a ...
CHANAKYA Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTH Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
JAMES MARTINEAU And last, the crown of a' my grief.
JOHN BUNYAN Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
UNKNOWN Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to g...
CHRISTINA RASMUSSEN One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It is light grief that can take counsel.
ANONYMOUS Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel g...
PHILIP K. DICK ...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we...
MICHELLE MORAN Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too ...
LIU CIXIN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Patch grief with proverbs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Patch grief with proverbs
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Gloom is a grief.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In childbirth grief begins.
EURIPIDES Vengeance Is a Lazy Form of Grief
NICOLE KIDMAN Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grie...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not...
XENOPHON Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not
XENOPHON Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either...
HERMAN MELVILLE The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
UNKNOWN The cure for grief is motion.
ELBERT HUBBARD Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- T...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN