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Sorrow is the great idealizer.
Sorrow is the great idealizer.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally read more
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
The only cure for grief is action.
The only cure for grief is action.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
