Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrisonwas an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
pain grief heart
Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.
travel home coming-home
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to ...
mean feelings facts
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...
evil faces dubious
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
regret home hands
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
fun serious moments
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
way pitfalls danger
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
sleep
To sleep is an act of faith.
struggle evil choices
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
travel garden yield
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
faith understanding belief
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
believe belief music-is
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
dying embarrassment humiliation
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
airplane thinking weight
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.