John Green Quotes

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

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

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

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

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

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Grief is exhausting.

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

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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