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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death”
Robert Fulghum Quotes |
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“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul”
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“Those things that hurt, instruct.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”
Erich Fromm Quotes |
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“Tears are the silent language of grief”
Voltaire Quotes |
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“One joy shatters a hundred griefs”
Chinese Proverbs Quotes |
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“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.”
Hilary Stanton Zunin Quotes |
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“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.”
Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes |
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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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“He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it”
Turkish Proverb Quotes |
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“Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 1)
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“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 1)
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“O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,
The holy name of Grief--holy herein,
That, by the grief of One, came all our good.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Sonnets--Exaggeration
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“Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--
That is light grieving!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Tears
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“There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac
molliat.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistles (IV, 5)
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“Were floods of tears to be unloosed
In tribute to my grief,
The doves of Noah ne'er had roost
Nor found an olive-leaf.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistles (IV, 5)
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“In all the silent manliness of grief.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 384)
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“Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XXII, l. 526), (Pope's translation)
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“What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so
beloved?
[Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Tam cari capitis?]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 24, 1)
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“On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief
Hath left my heart a withered leaf.
Time and change can do no more.”
Richard Hengist Horne Quotes Source: Dirge
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“Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not
exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has
received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 11)
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“The only cure for grief is action.”
George Henry Lewes Quotes Source: The Spanish Drama--Life of Lope De Vega (ch. II)
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“Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief
which does not speak!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. II, ch. II)
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“She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
[Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.]”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (I, 34, 4)
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“There is a solemn luxury in grief.”
William Mason Quotes Source: The English Garden (l. 596)
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