Astonishment Quote by Sara Suleri Download Open image “To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.” — Sara Suleri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonishment Grief Mourn Posture
To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most… — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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