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Losing a loved one4 quotes
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son! — David · 722 BCThough I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Grief3 quotes
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son! — David · 722 BCThough I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Loss2 quotes
O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son! — David · 722 BCThough I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Missing someone2 quotes
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Mourning2 quotes
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son! — David · 722 BCAging1 quote
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818Fathers and sons1 quote
O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son! — David · 722 BCLoneliness1 quote
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818The human condition1 quote
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818