Quote by Oscar Wilde

“I don't recognise any of my emotions any more. There's no such thing as plain joy or grief. It's horror and relief and panic…

— Elizabeth Wein

“I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Had I forgotten how to cry? Was that possible? In order to survive, I had long since buried my emotions.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.”

— Helen Garner

“And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Of all the emotions people gave me, sadness was probably the hardest one to take. Fear was temporary, but sadness could last a lifetime.”

— R.L. Naquin

“Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.”

— Phoolan Devi

“And maybe I was coping awfully well, I don’t know. Certainly I wasn’t howling aloud or punching my fist through windows or doing any…

— Donna Tartt

“Every emotion I’d ever felt was coursing through me, desire, need, joy, love, and even grief. We’d been through everything, through things people should…

— Deanna Roy

“I didn’t understand grief. I thought grief was something that happened when someone you love dies, not when they are still alive.”

— Cheri Davies

“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”

— Sebastian Faulks