Quote by Samuel Johnson
Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson

Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prévert

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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. – Bede Jarrett

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