Logo
Quote by Coleman Dowell
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell

Other quotes by Coleman Dowell
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Grief, Grieving
category

When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
For beauty born of beauty– that remains. – Madison Cawein

Category:
Grief, Grieving

All things grow with time — except grief. – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
Grief, Grieving

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

Category:
Grief, Grieving

Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. – Proverb

Category:
Grief, Grieving

Random Quotes

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Experience

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley

Category:
Life

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get. – Rodney Dangerfield

Category:
pet

Tea is a cup of life. – Author unknown

Category:
Tea