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

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. Psalms 30:5 – Bible

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

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Category:
Grief, Grieving

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

Random Quotes

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme – its taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasnt mean or anything. – Ashley Scott

Category:
Learning

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. – Jorge Luis Borges

Category:
Libraries

Never undertake anything for which you wouldnt have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

Category:
Courage

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustnt get serious with people. They dont expect it from you, and they dont want to see it. Youre not entitled to be serious, youre a clown. – Fanny Brice

Category:
funny