grieflit

grief-lit curation & poetry

[decomposedmaw]

So scary… 👻

[anasabdin]

Botanical [ 8 colors ]

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

[everyday-cutephoto]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black with low white spotting

[grieflit]

"Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or do we excuse its fragility and mourn its loss?"

Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace

[grieflit]

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially."

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."

James Baldwin

[moonlight-dove]

David Benioff, Troy

// Adapted from Homer, The Iliad

[remanence-of-love]

[nixscriptum]

[emotionalwords]

[grieflit]

"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once."

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The saddest thing is to be

a minute to someone,

when you've made them your eternity.”

— Sanober Khan

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[dogrotpdf]

how’s that house that raised you?

[m00wd]

Sometimes you need to sleep, sleep a lot. Not to escape, but to rest your soul from your feelings. Because everything, absolutely everything devours you. Completely.

—Brain

[vexheart]

Life finds a way, even in the cracks of concrete.

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[becomingvecna]

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

[grieflit]

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”

— Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary