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“Grief reminds us, with some violence, that our selves are unbounded, and also that this reminder of unboundedness leads to the very edge of the abyss.”

Grief Acceptance Sorrow Heartbreak Resilience Denial Class Consciousness

Book:We, The Heartbroken

Source: We, The Heartbroken

“Fear of the abyss, then, might span the deepest recesses of the psychodrama of selfhood and much more mundane and awkward anxieties about human status. Somewhere between fear and oblivion and fear of what the neighbours might say. Collapsing the distance between the biggest and the smallest questions, as if there were no difference between asking, 'Why am I here?' and asking 'What do they think of me?”

Heartbreak Denial Judgement Status Selfhood Existential Fear

Author:Gargi Bhattacharyya

“Depressed heartbreak is rarely disruptive or demanding or loudly eccentric. Depressed heartbreak is like taking a step into death while looking like you have remembered how to behave. I think this tells us something about the half-deadness this world [under late capitalism] demands of us. Learning to go through the motions and not hope too much.”

Depression Heartbreak Capitalism Late Capitalism

Book:We, The Heartbroken

Source: We, The Heartbroken

“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far safer to expel hope altogether. More sensible than the painful un-numbing of imagining other possibilities.”

Hope Fear Violence Hopelessness Dissociation Reactionary Politics Emotional Dissociation

Book:We, The Heartbroken

Source: We, The Heartbroken

“For a while I believe I am flying, not falling.”

Hope Grief Perception Delusion

Book:We, The Heartbroken

Source: We, The Heartbroken