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grief joy ancestry
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. Herman Melville
grief joy suffering
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. Herman Melville
grief men hands
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself. Jean Genet
grief book dust
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead. Jean Genet
grief people hopeless
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. Gideon Welles
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. Harriet Martineau
grief years grows
There are griefs which grow with years. Harriet Beecher Stowe
grief heart giving
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. Homer
grief sorrow tears
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. Ignatius of Loyola