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“grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping”

House Sleep Grief Doors Air Blow Disappear Rings Bells

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”

“Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.”

Wells Sex Grief Events Emotional And Love Disappear Theme Surround Grief And Death Sex And Love

Author:Thomas Lynch

“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises”

Hurt Grief Thousand Disappear Emptiness Disguise Finding Love

Author:Rumi

“Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”

Long Lost Love Is Grief Sadness Type Long Time Pops Disappear Bereavement Someone You Love Sneaky Lost Someone

Author:Daniel Handler

“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”

Knows Way Stills Different Grief Sorrow Blue Disappear Different Ways Grieving Bereavement Flare Embers

Book:Storm Glass

Source: Storm Glass

“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

House Grows Sleep Grief Doors Air Wall Protect Mirrors Forgotten Blow Disappear Rings Chairs Bells Protect You Younger Sister

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.”

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.”

Way Mother Loses Grief Awareness Daughter Longing Prepared Response Edges Surface Disappear Expected Intervals

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition