Bereavement (n.) is being introduced as the person something happened to.
Bereavement (n.) is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
Bereavement (n.) is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Bereavement (n.) is a genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief ; a sense of Christ’s living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling.
Guilt (n.) is what almost anyone confesses under torture; under a pain whose physical cause is unknown, a man interrogates himself until he finds himself or others guilty.
Guilt (n.) is preferred to meaninglessness: the sinner would rather consider himself guilty than feel bad for no reason.
Guilt (n.) and punishment were invented as assassination attempts on the concepts of cause and effect.
Guilt (n.) is the priest's answer to the sick sheep's 'someone must be to blame': 'Quite so, my sheep — but you yourself are this someone!'
Heartbreak (n.) is waking up employed by a feeling that no longer pays.
Heartbreak (n.) is overblown — No man dies of love but on the stage.
Heartbreak (n.) is life educating us.