Focusing on the concepts of grief, love, and time, the book examines the idea that we create our own gods, our own demons, and spend our lives in prayer to them—often hoping that they might spare us our suffering.
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Quotes tagged ‘Grief’
If I could call grief by any other name I would call it a Trojan Horse. We think it looks a certain way, we think that we can assess it and measure it and create a human shaped space within our own bodies for it to take residence within. But just when we think we have it figured out, when it’s all o…
As I breathed through alternating waves of grief and numbness over the last two years, I’ve regularly told myself, Just keep doing your part to end the pandemic. But with thousands of Americans dying from COVID every day as we look ahead to year three, I now feel there is little more I have left to…
Marriage is both a joy and a place where you will be dealt unbearable griefs.
Grief hits people in different ways.
Wanda Maximoff lived under the weight of considerable grief, and in that grief, she did something awful. We’ve all had some version of that in our lives. But that doesn’t excuse our bad actions amid that grief.
You know, there's no playbook on how to grieve.
— Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Rob Norris, Rob Delaney, imdb.com
Before all of it, this record showed me, my mother was a girl who drew swirly hearts and had crushes and listened to The Monkees. She was a girl like me.
I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos. How little I care that it’s something you wouldn’t have done. I lived it, I chose to do it, and more than anything, these photos aren’t for anyone but the people who have lived this or are curious enough to wonder what something like this…
Even though I’m now married to a wonderful man, I’m not sure I’ll ever love someone like I loved Alison.
Chrissy and husband John Legend — who are already parents to Luna, 4, and Miles, 2 — announced the news in a post on Chrissy's Instagram account on Wednesday night, adding that they had named the baby Jack.
Grief has become a sort of all-encompassing buzzword of late, as a way to capture the feeling of living through calamity, but I don’t think we should be so quick to call that feeling one of grieving.
Loss is loss is loss.
I loved that Santana was a queer woman of color, of course I did. But I loved that she was a bitch even more.
Among the posts appreciating Rivera’s life and work, many came from queer folks who hailed her portrayal of Lopez on Glee.
Acceptance, as you might imagine, is where the power lies. We find control in acceptance.
Why is grief the providence of youth?
You're going to have lots of hard days.
My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
All that grief down there, what a feast.
— Richard Price, Stephen King, Holly Gibney, Cynthia Erivo, imdb.com