Olympia Brown Quotes

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

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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

It was the saddest day of my life.

A loss feels like a loss.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Grief is exhausting.

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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.

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

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

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

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.

I know what it's like to lose.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.

And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.