What did Jeanette Winterson mean by: Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? Jeanette Winterson Author · England Copy
+ I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Fragmentation, Identity, Pain, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, fragility, Isolation, Space, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn’t matter to me. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Existence, Perspective, Spirituality, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Author, July 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Authenticity, Perception, Vulnerability, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn’t matter at all. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Freedom, Isolation, Vulnerability, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Aging, Reflection, Self-deception, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ Destiny is a worrying concept. I don’t want to be fated, I want to choose. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Anxiety, Choice, Fate, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
+ When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeanette Winterson, Birth, Liberation, Life, 0 Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
