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A review by hollyaaa
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
“I once read the sentence ‘I lay awake at night with toothache, thinking about toothache and about lying awake.’ That’s true to life. Part of every misery is… the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the face that you suffer.”
“The most precious gift that marriage gave me was this constant impact of something very close and intimate yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant — in a word, real. Is all that work to be undone? Is what I shall still call H. to sink horribly into being not much more than one of my old bachelor pipe-dreams? Oh my dear, my dear, come back for one moment and drive that miserable phantom away.”
“All reality is iconoclastic. The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her.”
CS Lewis writes so well. “A” Grief Observed — just his, not a treatise on all of grief or how to get through it. Just how it is.
“The most precious gift that marriage gave me was this constant impact of something very close and intimate yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant — in a word, real. Is all that work to be undone? Is what I shall still call H. to sink horribly into being not much more than one of my old bachelor pipe-dreams? Oh my dear, my dear, come back for one moment and drive that miserable phantom away.”
“All reality is iconoclastic. The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her.”
CS Lewis writes so well. “A” Grief Observed — just his, not a treatise on all of grief or how to get through it. Just how it is.