Contempt Quote by Nella Larsen

“At the time I vaguely knew that when anything stirs us that deeply, moves us to the point of distraction, and urgently invites us…

— Karol Jackowski

“Maybe I don’t want it to pass because that would mean an acceptance that life is like this: just a gradual process of loss.”

— Nicci French

“You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she…

— Henry James

“The grief, too, passes.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner came into…

— Paula Hawkins

“I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a time, we do not even…

— Ahdaf Soueif

“Sometimes it’s wise not to dwell on the incomprehensible, for if you do, you waste those precious moments of actually accepting it for what…

— K.M. Golland

“Sometimes it's very interesting, those things that are very important to you, when they first appear in front of you, you resist them.”

— Yixing Zhang

“Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get…

— Denis Johnson

“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“It was a strange thing: one never appeared to take a step forward int he heart or mind of this man. Those who wished,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help…

— Jennifer E. Smith