Grief Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.”

— Herman Melville

“Closing his eyes again, standing there, glass in hand, he thought for a minute with a freezing detached almost amused calm of the dreadful…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing,…

— Laurence Sterne

“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking out of…

— Frances Hardinge

He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and he no…

— Isaac Marion

“Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon…

— José Saramago

“The previous night, for the first time in a long time, he had felt whole, and his eyes returned to the rearview, where his…

— Anthony Marra

“He waved irritably at a waiter. There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened bartender stood…

— Ayn Rand

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and…

— Edwin Markham