Mourning Diary
Roland Barthes
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
“We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.”
“I have not a desire but a need for solitude.”
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?”
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).”
“Suicide How would I know I don’t suffer any more, if I’m dead?”
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”
“I live in my suffering and that makes me happy. Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me.”
“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life”
“In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean?”
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Book Keywords:
grief, world, loss, mourning, love, pain, irritation, life, sadness, unease, friends, acceptance, solitude
