"For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course."

-- Earl A Grollman

#Grief Quotes #Grieving Quotes #Survivor Quotes

“When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.”
“Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.”
“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.”
“The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.”
“What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.”
“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press
“Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.”

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