"No one ever told me that grief..." - Quote by C S Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
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“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”
“Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.”
“Nothing is really ours until we share it.”
More on Grief
“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”
“Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.”
“If there were no Love, there'd be no grief”
More on Fear
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
“Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.”