“Sorrow almost resents love, it is so inflamed.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: January 1878 letter to Mrs. Samuel Bowles, in Emily Dickinson Letters, Emily Fragos ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), 198.
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category: grief, mourning, sorrow
medium: Letter
“It isn’t the sorrow of last winter that stabs, it is those moments of hope—remembering those moments of hope is unbearable.
I planned to have him sleep in my bed the first night he came back.
It is not hard looking back at sorrow but at happiness.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
more infosource: Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 14.
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category: death, grief, hope, kidnap, mourning, sorrow
medium: diary
notes: diary entry dated Thursday, February 16, 1933; Anne and Charles Lindbergh's son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was kidnapped on the evening of March 1, 1932 at the age of twenty months
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