“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
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Others on Grief
Dante
7 quotes“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
Jojo Moyes
3 quotes“It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2 quotes“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want...”
Molière
2 quotes“If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.”
Seneca
2 quotes“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
Abraham Lincoln
1 quote“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
Albert Schweitzer
1 quote“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”
Alexandre Dumas
1 quote“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
Alfred Tennyson
1 quote“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
William Wordsworth
1 quote“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”
Emily Dickinson
1 quote“A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.”
Gregory Maguire
1 quote“Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.”