grief

‘You cut off the capacity for grief in your life and you cut off the joy, at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don’t have one without the other.’
William Hurt
‘There is a sadness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.’
Washington Irving
Forlorn, For Now, by Pixabay