"Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief."

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Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Grosz

#Grief Quotes #Closure Quotes #False Hope Quotes

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
“God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.”
“No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.”
“Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.”

Source : Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.”
“The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.”
“My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.”
“I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.”

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