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'Living with a loss is what matters, and artists and writers show us the many different ways in which this can me done.’
Psychoanalyst and author, Darian Leader explains how creatve works like poetry, drama and literature can help us get through sad times. Artists respond to the frustration and sadness of a loss - quotes, movies and poetry show us the universal nature of loss, in other words: we all feel like crap when we breakup!
Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.
Tin Woodsman, The Wizard of Oz
Sometimes I think I’ll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
Dorothy Parker
I could feel tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
Sylvia Plath
That’s what I like about disappointment:
the way it slows you down,
when the querulous insistent chatter of desire
goes dead calm.
Tony Hoagland, 'Disappointment'
Psalms
There’s nothing worse than rejection. It’s worse than death. I would wish sometimes for the guy to die because at least then I could go to his grave and visit.
Oprah Winfrey
Under which I could hide my head,
A soft grey wing, a beautiful thing,
Oh I wish that there were such a wing,
From I Wish by Stevie Smith
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.
Dennis Quaid
The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
Irina, The Three Sisters
Then with leaden feet which stumbled in a sudden darkness that overwhelmed me I groped my way back to the empty house.
from World Without End by Helen Thomas
What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
William Shakespeare
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
I feel a mortal isolation
Wrap each lovely limb in desolation,
Sight, hearing, all
Suffer a fall.
From Every Lovely Limb’s a Desolation by Stevie Smith
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