The Grieviary

Author: the author

  • 5746

    We call it empathy, this keen sight of pain, but it is only a mirror reflecting our isolation from the carefree. →

  • 0032

    Grief is existing in a world made dimmer by having no place for us to cast the light of our gaze. →

  • 6557

    The universe is not indifferent—it is unconscious. →

  • 0248

    The soul prefers a velvet cross to a wooden one, yet only the latter saves. →

  • 6110

    The path unfolds only in retreat from the illusion of a path. Each step is a negation of the map we desperately sought. →

  • 0052

    Die Einsamkeit und Stille im Leben, wo es keinen festen Weg gibt und der Moment an Bedeutung gewinnt, während die Leere spürbar wird. →

  • Radicalized

    Radicalism transcends mere extremity, rooted in historical thought. It advocates profound empathy and caregiving, emphasizing depth, persistent love, and human connection amid societal chaos. →

  • 4832

    Many lack the originality to lack originality in their own time, and so they dwell as exiles in ages they never knew. →

  • 2798

    With each new bit of surety accrued there is the death of some possibility held on to before. →

  • 2133

    If we couldn’t totally rely on our life ending, how could we bare its beginning? →

  • 0105.2

    We seek narratives to escape the abyss of grief, yet grief itself reveals the abyss as the only constant narrative. →

  • 0027

    Grief is existing in a world made other by having no path back to knowing ourselves. →

  • 0018

    Grief is a reckoning with our preverbal, prelogical, comprehensive, imaginal, indeed even magical ways of experiencing, adapting, and creating the world. →

  • 0017

    There is a nothingness to the words we would use when we are living their concept, it is not until after we have moved through the fire, scathed, that we are free to use what words we will. →