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... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is... More
... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to... More
A heavier task could not have been imposed
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. More
A poem should be equal to:
Not true.

For all the history of grief
An empty... More
A star was broken
Into the centuries of the child
Myselves grieve now, and miracles... More
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. More
Ah done been in sorrow’s kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and... More
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year. More
All those who try to go it sole alone,
Too proud to be beholden for relief,
Are... More
And grief stirs, and the deft
Heart lies impotent. More
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so... More
And weren’t there special cemetery flowers,
That, once grief sets to growing, grief may... More
Beneath the trees there is no ease
For the dull brain, the sharp desires
And the quick... More
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. More
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a... More
But he’s something stained
With grief, that’s beauty’s canker, thou mightst call... More
But no. Too soon I voun’ my charm abroke.
Noo comely soul in white like her—
Noo soul... More
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. More
But this was the old tree’s late branch wrenched away,
Grieving the sapless limbs, the... More
Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only through the... More
Cassius. I did not think you could have been so angry.
Brutus. O Cassius, I am sick of many... More
Claudius. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
Hamlet. Not so, my lord, I am too much... More
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender,... More
Each to his grief, each to
his loneliness and fidgety revenge. More
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids... More
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
Whereunder lies my darling, lies my... More
Grandfather, you were the pillar of fire in front of the camp and now we are left in the camp... More
Great griefs, I see, medicine the less. More
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. More
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with... More
Grief in the morning, washed away
in coffee, crumbled to a dozen errands between
busy... More
Grief makes us free
To be faithless and faithful together
As we have to be. More
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the... More
Grief thief of time crawls off.... More
Grief with drenched book and candle christens the cherub time.... More
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy... More
Grief, grief, I suppose and sufficient
Grief makes us free
To be faithless and faithful... More
Grief, have I denied thee?
Grief, I have denied thee. More
Her hands are not strong enough
Her hands will fall to her sides
And no wind will trouble... More
How shall I behold the face
Henceforth of God or Angel, earst with joy
And rapture so oft... More
Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them... More
I can’t rejoice and I can’t grieve, it’s in vain they explained to me how it’s done, I... More
I had a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O what... More
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky... More
I have seen
not behind but within, within the
dull grief, blown grit,... More
I suffered for birds, for young rabbits caught in the mower,
My grief was not... More
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers,... More
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of... More
If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal,
The heart would rest quiet.... More
In all the silent manliness of grief. More
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. More
In separation,
a lover’s burgeoning grief
just can’t be ended
without the... More
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only... More
It may be the more
That no line of her writing have I,
Nor a thread of her hair,
No... More
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. More
Jesus wept. More
Joys as winged dreams fly fast,
Why should sadness longer last?
Grief is but a wound to... More
Like love, grief fades in and out. More
Look,
I draw the sword myself; take it, and hit
The innocent mansion of my love, my... More
Love is dead; let lovers’ eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all... More
Malcolm. Dispute it like a man.
Macduff. I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a... More
many and many a day he thither went,
And never lifted up a single stone. More
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving? More
Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief. More
Morning smack of the spade that wakes up sleep,
Shakes a desolate boy who slits his... More
My grief lies all within,
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the... More
My Mother! when I learnt that thou wast dead,
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I... More
My soul’s a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily... More
Nights of storm, days of mist, without end;
Sad days when the sun
Shone in vain: old... More
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud,
Their heads are heroically... More
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. More
Nor will the love, gay as any leaf,
Assuage his anguish. And the lions laugh. More
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but... More
Nutmeg, civet, and sea-parsley serve the plagued groom and bride
Who have brought forth the... More
O do not grieve
for a torn earth
barren fields burnt forests
cracked riven... More
O insupportable and touching loss! More
O madam, my old heart is cracked, it’s cracked! More
O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,
I aft hae kissed sae fondly;
And closed for ay, the... More
O! grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with time’s deformèd... More
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. More
Others greater than I have already eulogized you, but none of them ever had the pleasure I had to... More
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not... More
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has... More
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father’s dead.
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure... More
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of... More
Restore location
To them now blinded quite
By the grave’s after-light.... More
Richard. Harp not on that string, madam, that is past.
Queen Elizabeth. Harp on it still... More
See, in the Navy, during the war, I got used to the idea that something might happen to me, I... More
She cried and prayed, but what good are prayers and orations when comes this last hour that the... More
She lifts the shadows from my blackest griefs, and makes even my darkest days serene ones. More
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and... More
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a... More
Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage, More
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle... More
Some crave grief like strong drink. More
Tell her, I’m sick of living; that I’m blown
By winds of grief from the course I ought to... More
Tell me about it if it’s something human.
Let me into your grief. More
Tell us, alas, that cannot tell our grief,
Or hope relief. More
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. More
The dust shall sing like a bird
As the grains blow, as your death grows, through our heart. More

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