Aspect Quote by Teju Cole

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

— Maurice Blanchot

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope,…

— Matthew Quick

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers…

— Arthur Miller

“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what…

— Joanne Harris

“This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by…

— Vicki Pettersson

“A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune.”

— Tracy Brogan

“There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of our work…

— Edwidge Danticat

While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Grief is part of my human experience. There will always be loss during my lifetime. Loss has come in a variety of forms to…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“The description of shock and grief hot so close to home: "but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping;…

— Donna Tartt

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not…

— Bertrand Russell