Comments - Grief - Online Grief Support - A Social Community2024-03-29T02:24:48Zhttp://www.onlinegriefsupport.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2054931%3ABlogPost%3A335485&xn_auth=noThis came to my attention via…tag:www.onlinegriefsupport.com,2019-10-20:2054931:Comment:3355562019-10-20T17:48:41.387ZM Adamshttp://www.onlinegriefsupport.com/profile/MAdams
<p>This came to my attention via an online site dedicated to thought provoking quotations and the history behind them. The site sends an e-mail every week...my husband found it interesting and turned me and many of his students into subscribers. Yesterday the theme was grief and the C. S. Lewis quotation, which I had read before, struck me anew. I do feel such fear now, about so many things, strangely including some quite trivial. Even writing this down makes my heart pound a bit, very…</p>
<p>This came to my attention via an online site dedicated to thought provoking quotations and the history behind them. The site sends an e-mail every week...my husband found it interesting and turned me and many of his students into subscribers. Yesterday the theme was grief and the C. S. Lewis quotation, which I had read before, struck me anew. I do feel such fear now, about so many things, strangely including some quite trivial. Even writing this down makes my heart pound a bit, very odd.</p>
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<p>Another quotation from the same e-mail came from long ago British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, who wrote that ‘the indulgence of grief is the blunder of a lifetime.’ That somehow resonates with me, though not in the same visceral way that the C. S. Lewis quotation does. </p>