[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Pericles
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  2. They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now - Unknown

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda

  5. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Unknown

More Quotes By Pericles
  1. Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

  2. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

  3. Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

  4. Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

  5. Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

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