Dark Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air,…

— Andrew Solomon

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

— Alison Bechdel

Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as…

— Judy Tatelbaum

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

— Veronica Roth

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

— Ariel Levy

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight,…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

— Nicolas Roeg

“Grief manifested itself in ways that felt like anything but grief; grief obliterated all feelings but grief; grief made a twin wear the same…

— Kamila Shamsie

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and…

— Anne Lamott

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

— Denise Levertov