This picture of Joannie Rochette made me think of so many other images. She looks like a statue, like the personification of grief.

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."  ~William Shakespeare

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief.  But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer...and everything collapses."  ~Colette

 "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." -C.S. Lewis

 “Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength." -Ovid

 “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is a sacredness 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

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death--
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning