“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."
- Mary Oliver
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift." - Mary Oliver
Anguish is an almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light,”
Cheryl Strayed • Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul
It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.
Mary Shelley • Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Mary Shelley Classics
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
– Mary Oliver
At other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you.
