A Quote by Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
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Born: August 10, 1973

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Meghan O'Rourke

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Josh Billings

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

Karen Thompson Walker

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

Paul Graham

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

George Henry Lewes

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Dickens

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Edward Hirsch

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

Sigmund Freud

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

John Ruskin

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

Cindy Sheehan

I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

John Ruskin

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