The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 22 – A Grief Observed by CS Lewis (1961)
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 22 – A Grief Observed by CS Lewis (1961)
The Irish Times: A Grief Observed (1961) by CS Lewis: An honest meditation on mourning
A Grief Observed (1961) by CS Lewis: An honest meditation on mourning
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. It’s a moment of epiphany, or, as ...
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear,” says C.S. Lewis in the opening line of A Grief Observed. Maybe grief doesn’t just feel like fear, maybe it is fear. Okay maybe not wholly. Grief ...
I was looking for handbooks to tragedy. And, in A Grief Observed, the widowed discover that Lewis has charted this frozen land of total absence as exactly as he did the map of Narnia. William ...
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid." C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed. Many people spend most of their lives with unprocessed grief ...
C.S. Lewis opens “A Grief Observed” with this: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” More than a decade and a half after my son John’s death, I meditate on Lewis’ words. They are true, ...
I had a hard time sleeping right after my mother died. The nights were long and had their share of what C.S. Lewis, in his memoir A Grief Observed, calls “mad, midnight … entreaties spoken into the ...