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grief writing suffering
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. C. S. Lewis
grief want way
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes. Alan Davies
grief sorrow world
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize. Jane Austen
grief emotion sometimes
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. Brent Sexton
grief people empathy
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst. Elif Safak
grief expecting least-expecting
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. Dominic Cooper
grief capacity results
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- Abraham Verghese
grief too-much asks
Death is too much to ask of the living. Dodie Smith
grief joy firsts
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. Daniel Defoe
grieving deep-water slides
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. Susanna Kearsley
grieving waiting missing
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. Walt Whitman
grieving towns emptiness
It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness. Miriam Toews
grieving light rivers
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day. Betty Smith
hands monitor
This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation. Rob Andrew
hands paper found
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. Arthur Conan Doyle
hands house brain
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. Barbara Kingsolver
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands profound looks
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Burt Ward
hands challenges goes-on
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. Carnie Wilson
hands creating choices
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand. Al Gore
hands judging size
The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself. Diana Vreeland
hands names guy
Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. Elizabeth Scott