Quote by John Berger
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that i

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. – Proverb

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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. – Antonia S. Byatt

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Grief is light that is capable of counsel. – Proverb

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No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. – E. M. Cioran

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