“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.” IfsFeelsI CanHelpingPainSongHurtLossAudienceLonelinessCryInvolvedGutsAcheLamentLove Loss Author:Frank Sinatra
“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.” IfsGivingTryingHumansLittlesFeelingsValuesLeftLossEmotionBehindsGoneWorstMissingTomorrowHorrorViolentBackgroundsHolesNoiseBlockIntensityAcheLeft BehindMissing SomeoneHuman EmotionsAnger And FearBackground Noise Author:Alexandra Potter
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.” DesireFeltLossEmotionDecidedFulfillmentContentmentGapsAnticipationRetreatAche Author:Kiran Desai
“TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning” IfsKnowsTryingEndsHappensLossSpaceMorningEmptyAcheNovemberEarly MorningEmpty Space Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison