“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: The Powerbook
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
Source: The Odyssey
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Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
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“Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
“Men are quick to praise and quick to blame; so pay no heed to what others speak of you.”
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Josefa Iloilo (1920–2011) President of Fiji
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Was wir Trauer nennen, ist vielleicht nicht sowohl der Schmerz über die Unmöglichkeit, unsere Toten ins Leben kehren zu sehen, als darüber, dies gar nicht wünschen zu können.
http://books.google.com/books?id=q4UdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22was+wir+Trauer+nennen+ist+vielleicht+nicht+sowohl+der+Schmerz+%C3%BCber+die+Unm%C3%B6glichkeit+unsere+Toten+ins+Leben+kehren+zu+sehen+als+dar%C3%BCber+dies+gar+nicht+w%C3%BCnschen+zu+k%C3%B6nnen%22&pg=PA562#v=onepage
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
“People usually blame themselves or “fate.””
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
However, when two cars collide at an intersection, should we blame the individual drivers, “fate,” or the way transportation is engineered so that it permits collisions in the first place?
Designing the Future (2007)