Grief and loss Quote by Roland Barthes

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.”

— Roland Barthes

“To speak of ‘trying again’ while her ghost was still in the room was an insult to both the child gone before and the…

— Anna Spargo-Ryan

Sorrow makes us all children again.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mourning process can feel like going through a carwash without a car.”

— Jodi Livon

“ Would've, should've, could've. Hindsight is such a bitch.”

— Ashley Poston

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

— William Shakespeare

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

— Solomon

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just…

— Iris Murdoch

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

— Seamus Heaney

Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold…

— Terence McKenna

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and…

— Susan Sontag