Vasily Grossman Quotes

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 so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

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

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

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

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

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

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.

A piece of each of us died.