Quote by Roland Barthes

“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.”

— Anne Lamott

“It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory.…

— Kyo Maclear

“To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.”

— Veronica Roth

“We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot know what it might make of…

— Javier Marías

“It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. But for…

— Marie Lu

“Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides…

— William Shakespeare

“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

— Marcel Proust

“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The strangest experiences in life are apt to lose their effect if dwelt upon long enough. ("Furze Hollow")”

— A.M. Burrage

“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates…

— Edgar Allan Poe