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Letter "G" » Grief
«You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.»
«While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates»
«What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so»
«Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it»
«What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.»
«What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived»
«What's gone and what's past help should be past grief»
«You may my glories and my state depose,But not my griefs; still am I king of those.»
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