Swimming in a Sea of Death Quotes

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But there is no closure, no forgetting. One mourns those one has loved who have died until one joins them. It happens soon enough.”
― David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir

“به همان اندازه که متعهدیم به دیگران بگوییم چه چیز قابل قبول است، همان‌قدر تعهد داریم که نگوییم چه چیز قابل قبول نیست”
― David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir

“She thought the world a charnel house…and couldn’t get enough of it. She thought herself unhappy…and wanted to live, unhappy, for as long as she possibly could.”
― David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir