Quotes by Dowell, Coleman

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming. >>

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of some >>

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity eithe >>

Quotations about Bereavement

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy wer >>

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. >>

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak >>

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 one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Dowell, Coleman