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“Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.”

People Soul Faces Social Black Grief Possibility Profound Deny Features Black People Rooted Agony Existential Geography Heirs Spooky

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.”

Mind Kind May States Helping Grief Enemy Dangerous Despair Silent Accidents Over It State Of Mind Remedy Agony Reserves Distress Gloomy Disdain

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

“But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.”

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

“Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good.”

Life Littles Soul Spirit Found Grows Forget Grief Cry Good Life Agony Sigh Knocked Down

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.”

People Needs Humans Mean Has Beens Country Enough Happens Human Beings Grief Cities Happened Land Son Terrible Bunch Tragic Cows Agony Crucible Jericho Trough

Book:Set this House on Fire

Source: Set this House on Fire

“She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.”

Years Feelings Would Be Past Remember Faces Left Grief Empty Grateful Remembered Accomplished Bitterness Agony Healer

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”

Writing Humans Past Spirit Suffering Human Beings Pleasure Grief Fate Strange Poet Source Drama Legends Verses Agony Remembrance Playwright Alchemy

Book:Dragon's Teeth

Source: Dragon's Teeth

“Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!”

Source: Sylvie and Bruno

“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”

“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”

Happiness Grief Human Nature Grieving Instant Agony Indulgence Blunders Griefing Self Indulgence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.”

Way Want Soul Eye Water Grief Fire Tree Caught Storm Dust Fragile Yellow Scream Agony Rabbits Frogs Drought Indestructible Pollen

Author:Deena Metzger