Impossible mourning (n.) was Oedipus's last bequest: by hiding his grave even from his daughters he deprived them of their mourning — the most generous and poisoned gift there is.
Impossible mourning (n.) is Antigone's grief: her father buried in secret on foreign soil, she weeps less for him than for the mourning she has been denied.
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Lamentation (n.) in tears, complaints and gestures of rage is counted by our culture among the nobler necessities; ancient philosophy despised it, and might have filed us all among the rabble.
Lamentation (n.) comforts only by lacerating the heart still more; such grief does not want consolation, it feeds on its own hopelessness and craves to reopen the wound.
Lamentation (n.) over the present void, and the longing for a little monarchy of ideas, never tempts anyone who has once found a new tone, a new way of seeing or doing.
A Lamentation (n.) stays epic in content however lyrical its grief, because it is concerned with what has been.
Mourning and melancholy (n.) is Sigmund Freud's essay contrasting normal grief with melancholia, in which loss turns inward against the self.
Mourning and melancholy (n.) is loss that ends and loss that learns to live.
Mourning and melancholy (n.) is grief with a schedule and grief without one.
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