All the old statues of Victory have wings: but Grief has no wings. She is the unwelcome lodger that squats on the hearthstone between us and the fire and will not move or be dislodged.
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Orion's Cold Fire
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I am well acquainted with grief these days.
Grief is just another word for mortality. Every year another crop of loss. Like the leaves falling from an autumn landscape. The young are the only consolation.