Alice Miller Quotes About Mourning

Quotes about: Mourning

• The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Giving Up, Self Esteem

• Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Grief, Healing

• The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

  Alice Miller

  Family, Opportunity, Self

• That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

  Alice Miller

  Mourning, Narcissistic, Heal

  Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books

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