"Grief. The pain now is part of..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.”
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“Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one”
“The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.”
“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.”
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“I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.”
“My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.”
“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”