Quote by Antoine De SaintExupery

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itse

Summary

This quote by French philosopher and essayist Antoine de Saint-ExupÃ©ry reflects on the days of mourning after the death of a friend. It suggests that during the burial process, the overwhelming tasks and obligations of the occasion prevent one from truly comprehending the loss and the absence of the deceased. It suggests that true mourning and realization of the departure come later, in moments of solitude and silence when the absence becomes fully tangible. It emphasizes the struggle of letting go and accepting the departure of a loved one.

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