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How to use the word grief in a Sentence? Page #9

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There are some really brilliant moments between Mark Harmon and Joe Spano's Fornell, it's them working through the loss and grief.

Gary Glasberg

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9 years ago

I have faced enormous losses, not only me, but everyone who is here is carrying some form of grief, all I pray for is peace.

Mary Conseeta

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9 years ago

Worse than grief is the not knowing, the in-between, do I grieve or do I hope. That's hard, it's a very difficult place for the psyche to be and many people would say it's worse than grief.

George Hu

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9 years ago

It's a very difficult place for the psyche to be and many people would say it's worse than grief. this year we also experienced some sad moments.

Xi Jinping

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9 years ago

Coming from code, it’s just unfortunate.These are hard, hard problems.It isn’t easy to programmatically figure out if a picture has a ton of Likes because it’s hilarious, astounding, or heartbreaking. [The Year in Review feature is] awesome for a lot of people, but clearly in this case we brought him grief rather than joy.

Jonathan Gheller

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9 years ago

Unresolved grief can cause people to go through life severely wounded, our goal is to help people understand that grief does not have to destroy them.

Annette March-Grier

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9 years ago

A child's grief over the loss of a loved one is often complicated by the loss of security and identity, this shift can be very dangerous if there's no support system there.

Annette March-Grier

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9 years ago

I love my city. ... But people here are having crisis after crisis, the violence in this city and grief are directly connected.

Annette March-Grier

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9 years ago

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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9 years ago

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

Gregory Nunn

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. -- About Paris

Nicolas Chamfort

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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Jean de La Bruyère

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9 years ago

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Terence

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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

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“For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.”

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

C. S. Lewis

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10 years ago

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

John Milton

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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Herman Melville

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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Tryon Edwards

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Horace Mann

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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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From the Gulistan Be not over much angry with thy slave; Treat him not unjustly, and pain not his feelings. True, thou mayst have bought him for ten direms; But 'twas not by thy power that he was created. There is a tradition of the Prophet--peace be upon him!--that on the day of the resurrection the greatest grief will be when the pious slave is carried to Paradise, and his worthless master is borne away to Hell.

Saadi

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10 years ago

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