Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you have had love before it — grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. You do understand; I know you do. But you just don’t want to think about it. It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to feel love again. Jason, grief is awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness…
– Philip K Dick on loss and grief
11 months ago
/ 1 note
/ Source: eyepool.net