Grief leaves no permanent internal traces because feelings never set

Evidence

Feelings are like water, they always adapt to their surroundings. Not even the worst grief leaves traces; when it feels so overwhelming and lasts for such a long time, it is not because the feelings have set, they can’t do that, they stand still, the way water in a forest mere stands still. — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1367

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grief can drain meaning from the surrounding world while leaving inner thought intact — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1524; Deferred mourning is stored up and complicates later griefs — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 307; Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244 (+1 more)

Related

• Grief can drain meaning from the surrounding world while leaving inner thought intact (similarity 0.82)
• Grief cannot be contained inside a person but spills into the world (similarity 0.80)
• Deferred mourning is stored up and complicates later griefs (similarity 0.79)
• Grief encompasses a range of complex, untidy emotions. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions #expands (0.70) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244
• Grief can drain meaning from the surrounding world while leaving inner thought intact #qualifies (0.60) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1524
• Deferred mourning is stored up and complicates later griefs #contradicts (0.55) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 307