Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.

About Euripides

Portrait of Euripides

Euripides (; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays...

More quotations from Euripides

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.

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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

—Benjamin Disraeli

It is light grief that can take counsel.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

—Ann Radcliffe

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

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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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