Accustomed Quote by Mesa Selimovic

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savor the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon. Those moments when everything-taste,…

— Juliana Buhring

I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed to experience…

— Karyn Kusama

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades…

— Umberto Eco

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job,…

— Alice Hoffman

“The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow. No one…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would…

— Karyn Kusama

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh…

— Elizabeth Drew

“We trust that acknowledging and releasing grief, pain and other unmentionable feelings is a most healing and blessed function, since it allows emotions to…

— Franco Santoro

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

— Ivan Illich

As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see…

— Rachael Yamagata

Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the…

— Peter Koestenbaum

“Pain, horror and grievances are recycled through history until we find ways to expose and accept them, truly listen to them, while also finding…

— Franco Santoro