William Faulkner Quotes

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

There is no love without suffering.

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

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.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Grief is exhausting.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

That's painful always to lose.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

All of my books come from pain.

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

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.