Grief

“Only the loss remains which can never be recuperated. The event is over. The event has been overcome and yet the loss is only beginning. Every day it grows deeper. More and more is forgotten. Less and less is really known for certain. And nothing will ever bring his father back from the realm of memory into the reassuringly concrete world of mater

Sadness moves the individual “us” toward the collective “us.”

Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

But, one could ask, what about sorrow? We all know that there is sorrow in life. It comes to each of us in the loss of someone we love, in the loss of our power

Alexander Lowen • Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (Compass)

Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.

Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life

Grief is not an illness to cure or a disease to overcome. Mourning is an inherent aspect of wellness, as long as mortality defines our existence.

Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go

Grief is part of life, throughout life. Though we may be afraid of it, it isn’t bad; it simply exists, a shared human experience. Over

Beth Pickens • Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

Aubrey Plaza on what her grief feels like:

"This is a really dumb analogy and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it. Did you see that movie The Gorge?"

"It's like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller. In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side and there's a cliff on the other side, then there's gorge in betwe

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