Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Grief causes suffering and disease.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
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