Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

—Ann Radcliffe

About Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794. She is also remembered for her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791)...

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

—Ann Radcliffe

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

—Ann Radcliffe

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

—Ann Radcliffe

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

—Ann Radcliffe

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

—Ann Radcliffe

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Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

—Marcus Antonius

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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy.

—Pema Chödrön

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That life… that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied—nonetheless she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when it would not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret.

—Sigrid Undsetfs

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There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely.

—Alyson Noël in Night Star

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No matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

—Tiffanie DeBartolo in God-Shaped Hole

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