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Tag: grief, mourning

Rosamund Lupton

An explosion in space makes no sound at all.

grief, mourning

Peter R. Pouncey

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

grief, mourning

Ursula K. Le Guin

Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there’s no good in it.

grief, mourning

[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

grief, mourning

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

grief, mourning

William Shakespeare

Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

grief, mourning

Rosamund Lupton

An explosion in space makes no sound at all.

grief, mourning

Peter R. Pouncey

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

grief, mourning

Ursula K. Le Guin

Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there’s no good in it.

grief, mourning

[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

grief, mourning

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

grief, mourning

William Shakespeare

Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

grief, mourning