When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
Interpretation
Sorrow can feel overwhelming and physically painful, akin to severe physical injuries.
In this quote, Roberto Bolaño vividly illustrates the profound impact of sorrow on a person, comparing it to the physical agony of broken bones and bruises. He conveys that the emotional suffering of sorrow can be so intense that it manifests in bodily sensations, emphasizing the weight of grief and loss that one feels when confronted with deep sadness.
In practice
During a speech at a memorial service to express the depth of loss felt by the community.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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