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“How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?”

Book:Getting Home Alive

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Getting Home Alive

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“Do you have any idea why you might be feeling better?” “No, not really,” I said curtly. Better wasn’t even the word for how I felt. There wasn’t a word for it. It was more that things too small to mention—laughter in the hall at school, a live gecko scurrying in a tank in the science lab—made me feel happy one moment and the next like crying. Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was thinning and the city was emptying for the night; it was rainy, trees leafing out, spring deepening into summer; and the forlorn cry of horns on the street, the dank smell of the wet pavement had an electricity about it, a sense of crowds and static, lonely secretaries and fat guys with bags of carry-out, everywhere the ungainly sadness of creatures pushing and struggling to live. For weeks, I’d been frozen, sealed-off; now, in the shower, I would turn up the water as hard as it would go and howl, silently. Everything was raw and painful and confusing and wrong and yet it was as if I’d been dragged from freezing water through a break in the ice, into sun and blazing cold.”

Depression Recovery Mourning

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done.”

Depression Misery Mourning

Author:D.H. Lawrence

“How can you stop mourning the missing?”

Missing Mourning Missing Person

Book:The Watcher in the Woods

Source: The Watcher in the Woods

“Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.”

Pain Suffering Loss Sadness Mourning

Book:Where the Heart Is

Source: Where the Heart Is

“Graves are for the living, not the dead.”

Life Death Mourning

Book:Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“Understand this first and foremost that you are the center of your existence; nobody else is responsible. No matter how burdensome it feels, but you alone are responsible. If you accept this truth all sorrow will soon disappear. Because once it is clear that I am making this game, how long will it take you to destroy it?”

Life Happiness Responsibility Misery Bliss Cause Of Pain

Book:Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

Source: Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

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