Quote by C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Summary

In this quote, author C.S. Lewis expresses a powerful insight about grief. He highlights that grief is an incredibly intense emotion that closely resembles fear in its emotional impact. Lewis suggests that, unexpectedly, the experience of grief may be an overwhelming and unsettling phenomenon. This comparison not only emphasizes the depth of grief but also suggests that it can provoke similar responses and manifest as a profound and gripping emotion that one may not have anticipated or fully comprehended until experiencing it firsthand.

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By C. S. Lewis

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