Posted by Declan on March 19, 2007, at 14:55:57
In reply to Re: overwhelming sadness/ thoughts and emotions, posted by chiron on March 18, 2007, at 21:03:54
So it's not a case for you of being able to find the right words, then?
In this book I'm reading a character says this
"I happened to lose my life at one particular moment in time, and I have gone on living these 40 years or more with my life lost. As a person who finds himself in such a position, I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the middle of the maelstrom realise. The light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and one has failed to grasp its proferred revelation, there is no second chamce. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depths of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been."
And somewhere else that same character says something like "I would give the rest of my life to know how I had lost the life I had. Not that I expect or want to get that life back, but just to know."That's from "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle", Haruki Murakami.
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