"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

Grief, Joy, Memory, Pain

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"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grief, Sadness, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Grief, Memory, Death, Presence

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Grief, Silence, Decay, Emotion

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Grief, Nothing, Past

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Grief, Suicide, Family, Dignity, Loss

"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Death, Friendship, Loneliness

"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grief, Regret, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom

"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Unfairness, Love, Death, Pain

"There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Grief, Sadness, Truth, Power, Life

"I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Parenting, Memory

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"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

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"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

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"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."

"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

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"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."

"There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually."

"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."

"We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity."

"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune."

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."

"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."