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grief giving feelings
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. C. S. Lewis
grief sorrow maps
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. C. S. Lewis
grief bears trouble
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble. Agnes Repplier
grief eye strange
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. Charlotte Bronte
grief sea people
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations. Charlotte Bronte
grief struggle mastery
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak. Charlotte Bronte
grief moving men
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief. Charles Dickens
grief loss grieving
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up! Charles Dickens
grief rain air
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain. Charles Dickens
ears movement elegance
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. Abba Eban
ears enrich homes trust
Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold. Lucius Accius
ears hungry
Hungry ears are sharp ones. Jane Smiley
ears whispering world
In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center. Chris Cleave
ears discourse
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear William Shakespeare
ears notes cant
I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear. Jane Horrocks
ears language picks
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. Diane Cilento
ears mouths speak
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well. Desiderius Erasmus
ears inspires life might observers open writers
I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration. Kevin Henkes
mourning absence mates
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate Edmund Spenser
mourning care way
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. Edmund Burke
mourning today ruins
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. Catherynne M. Valente
mourn knows
Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing. Clarice Lispector
mourning wear
Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy. Anton Chekhov
mourning
I'm in mourning for my life. Anton Chekhov
mourning black said
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. Anton Chekhov
mourning sorrow tears
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. Edward Everett
mourn people square ton visit
For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them! Kurt Braunohler