"Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief."

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Source : Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.140, A&C Black

Jesmyn Ward

#Hurt Quotes #Grief Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.”
“I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.”
“You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. Vanity runs, love digs. If you fly away from yourself, your prison will run with you and will close in because of the wind of your flight; if you go deep down into yourself it will disappear in paradise.”
“If God is male, then the male is God.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.40, Beacon Press
“Its not that I like men sexually, just that I can admit when they are beautiful. But sexually I need a woman.”
“Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better.”
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
“Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.”

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