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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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
strange sin illusion
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
strange painting young
[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known. Agnes Varda
stranger reason absurd
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.
strange strange-bedfellows bedfellows
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Charles Dudley Warner
strange strange-bedfellows bedfellows
Politics make strange bedfellows.
stranger retiring pauses
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
strange forgotten said
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me. Djuna Barnes
stranger unison estrangement
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Jane Austen
strange-places class two
Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time. Alan Arkin
paradox
To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith. Aiden Wilson Tozer
paradox mathematics should
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not. Charlie Munger
paradox found rapid-change
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. Earl Warren
paradox paradigm
There's a paradox in every paradigm. Ani Difranco
paradoxes
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. Oscar Wilde
paradox jew anti-semitism
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. Jack Bruce
paradox
Paradoxes are the only truths. George Bernard Shaw
paradox contradiction
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. Mason Cooley
paradox
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.