tragically unhip | quotes

"it has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. but the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ~Neil Gaiman

"the highest tribute to the dead is not grief, but gratitude." ~Thorton Wilder

"it's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. but then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer....and everything collapses." {Colette}

"we understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love." {Madame de Stael}

"there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope." {george eliot}

the afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. {swedish proverb}