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Grief

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“But what is grief, if not love persevering?”
— Vision (played by Paul Bettany) in WandaVision Season 1 Episode 8 entiteled Previously On (February 26, 2021)
“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”
— Pierre Corneille, Polyeucte, Act I, sc. 3 (1642)
“We tend to shy away from that grief. But I think that that’s the role of art: to help us into grief, and through grief, for each other, for our values, for the living world. You know, I think about grief as a measure of our love, that grief compels us to do something, to love more.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview with The Guardian (2020)
“Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.”
— Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 2, line 29.
“A genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief; a sense of Christ's living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling.”
— Arthur Henry Kenney, p. 27.

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“But what is grief, if not love persevering?”
— Vision (played by Paul Bettany) in WandaVision Season 1 Episode 8 entiteled Previously On (February 26, 2021)
“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”
— Pierre Corneille, Polyeucte, Act I, sc. 3 (1642)
“We tend to shy away from that grief. But I think that that’s the role of art: to help us into grief, and through grief, for each other, for our values, for the living world. You know, I think about grief as a measure of our love, that grief compels us to do something, to love more.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview with The Guardian (2020)
“Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.”
— Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 2, line 29.
“A genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief; a sense of Christ's living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling.”
— Arthur Henry Kenney, p. 27.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.