The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Interpretation
Grief can create strong connections between people who share similar losses.
This quote emphasizes that the relationships forged through shared experiences of grief are some of the most profound. It suggests that in times of sorrow, individuals come together in a meaningful way, creating a sense of community and understanding that transcends ordinary bonds.
In practice
In a eulogy, one might highlight how shared grief can unite friends and family.
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
I donβt think that because Iβm not married itβs made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.
Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.
There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
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