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“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

Facts Loss Grief Known Television Periods Drama Moved Chaos Intense Narrative Internals Friendly Chaotic Static Moved On

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.”

Hard Grief Food Spots Damage Internals Tomatoes

Author:Julia Child

“If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?”

Ifs Men Grief Written Objects Envy Every Man Pity Internals Foreheads

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.”

World Mind Feelings Suffering Lost Grief Accepting Letting Go Expectations Anger Disappointment Rage Familiar Confusion Internals Trapped

Book:Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Source: Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

“Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.”

Giving Humans Heart Causes Growth Grief Amount Behavior Stress Block Internals Pockets Bizarre Unfinished Deposits Unexplained

Author:Robert Kavanaugh

“Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.”

Form Opportunity Individual Causes Grief Consciousness Progress Evolution Perception Evolve Aspiration Internals Mechanism Flawed Individual Success

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.”

World Way Heart Long Might Lost Grief Break Knowing Internals Aftermath Break Your Heart

Author:Mark Doty