“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
— William Faulkner, book If I Forget Thee
Variant: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
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Message from the Queen, read by the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, St Thomas's Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue. 22 September 2001. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1341155/Grief-is-price-of-love-says-the-Queen.html
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
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Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian salon-holder
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression