“there is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been.”
“Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.”
“In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.”
“Chimerical grief — now guilt, now blame, now the thought that it could all have been otherwise. ~ Glory”
“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.”
“The pain is too much, the loss too great. There is no more before, and the after is too devastating. There isn’t enough of me left to go on. Grief has stolen too much of me now.”