Ain't no shame in holding on to grief . . . as long as you make room for other things too.
Submitted by y3teacher 2 months ago
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Ain't no shame in holding on to grief . . . as long as you make room for other things too.
Submitted by y3teacher 2 months ago
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"To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
...
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."
Submitted by Kayla 6 months ago
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.
Submitted by rocketChips over 1 year ago
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It made me laugh, it made me feel drunk, it made me feel high with loss, in that tightrope kind of way of sadness and hysteria. And when you don't have ideas like that, it feels too messy to bear. It gave me great comfort. It was something I would repeat to myself, like a mantra. Because for some time it felt like we had lost everything. And those words, that idea, calmed me down.
Submitted by rocketChips over 1 year ago
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Submitted by meggilyweggily over 1 year ago
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If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
Submitted by meggilyweggily over 1 year ago
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
Submitted by meggilyweggily over 1 year ago
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It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
Submitted by meggilyweggily over 1 year ago
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Pain = regret of the past projected into potential negative futures. Otherwise it's just sensation. Being present = peace.
Submitted by mimusician over 2 years ago
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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Submitted by amaguire over 2 years ago
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Clarice: What’s the worst thing about grief, John? The worst thing of all?
John Constantine: I don’t know. But it’s okay, because you’re about to tell me.
Clarice: It’s how quickly life picks up again. How soon you go back to fretting about mortgage, and holding silly grudges. Someone you loved is dead and it seems as if the world should end. But it doesn’t end. It doesn’t even change. That’s what’s unbearable.
— Unknown
Submitted by nameless over 2 years ago
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I'm watching human grief - it's like offal in my mouth.
— Illyria
Submitted by paulfedory over 2 years ago
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.
Submitted by queenosheba over 2 years ago
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