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n. the unease of knowing how quickly your circumstances could change on you—that no matter how carefully you shape your life into what you want it to be, the whole thing could be overturned in an instant, with little more than a single word, a single step, a phone call out of the blue, and by the end of next week you might already be looking ... See more
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
where pain comes from and where it might go.
Kathryn Nuernberger • The Witch of Eye
On Joy and Sorrow
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For a moment you’re able to shake off the spell of language and see things as they are, in all their unknowable complexity. This world is far bigger than the handful of places you’ve seen or heard about; your inner experience is far richer than the stories you tell yourself; your loved ones are far deeper than the roles they play in your life; stra
... See moreJohn Koenig • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
such a penetrating cry, which held so much sadness that no one could hear,
Courtois Grégoire • The Laws of the Skies
"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full to the gorge with our own names for misery. Life, the pastures in which the night feeds and prunes the cud that nourishes us to despair. Life, the permission to know death. We were created that the earth might b
... See moreAt other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you.