"Grief is like a long valley, a..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
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“You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.”
“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”
“Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.”
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“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”
“Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.”
“it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams”
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“The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.”
“O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.”
“When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.”