Bradley Wright-Phillips Quotes

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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

I know what it's like to lose.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

It was the saddest day of my life.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

I know how it feels to lose.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.