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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
bitterness bitter hours
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter. Agnes Smedley
bitter certain deal definitely matters people population proportion regain resolve respect ways whom
There is definitely a certain proportion of this population for whom the only way to deal with humiliation - the only way to regain respect - is through violence. This is a place where many people don't look for ways to resolve a dispute. They take all matters to the very bitter end. Mark Shields
bitter burns certain genre great guys viable
I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them. Tim Minear
bitter government pour task
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. Vladimir Putin
bitterness bitter feels
Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. Charles Buxton
bitter happy-person persons
I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person Britney Spears
bitter both decided route warm
I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C. Kristin Gore
bitter bus buses empty hold people send space until
We've got more bus space than people and I'm not going to send them off empty. We are going to hold empty buses until the bitter end. Steve LeBlanc
bitterness crowns worn
... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown. Dean Koontz
jest trade
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. Elizabeth I
jest true-words
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. William Shakespeare
jest
In jest, there is truth. William Shakespeare
jest made earnest
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. Annie Dillard
jest intellect
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. Jean de la Bruyere
jest loses
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest. George Herbert
jest true-words
Many a true word is spoken in jest Geoffrey Chaucer
jest wit seems
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it. John Webster
jest turns earnest
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. Plautus