Culture Quote by Philippe Aries

If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of…

— Cheryl Strayed

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be…

— Ram Dass

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus…

— Edward Hirsch

“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.”

— Richard J. Borden

“Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.”

— Megan Devine

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It…

— George Eliot

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people…

— Michael Sheen

“Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if…

— Carol Cassella

Why do dying people never shed tears?

— Max Frisch

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We…

— Edward Hirsch

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And…

— Alan Watts

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is…

— Susan Sontag