Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

To convey in any existing language how I miss you isn’t possible. It would be like blue trying to describe the ocean.

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.

Tears are the silent language of grief

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

An experience most deeply felt is the most difficult to convey in words. Remembering brings the emptiness, the acutely painful awareness of irreparable loss. ...Every time I see the grave, I get that empty feeling where something was, and isn't anymore, and will never be again.

I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow.

human language is inadequate to the divine praise,

The word can't cope with my load of anguish,/and my exalted pain can't fit in my verse.

Language death is a terrible loss, to all who come into contact with it: `Facing the loss of language or culture involves the same stages of grief that one experiences in the process of death and dying.”‘ We do not have to be members of an endangered community to sense this grief, or respond to it. Anyone who has worked with these communities, even over a short period, knows that it is a genuine insight, well justifying the dramatic nature of the analogy. And it is this keen, shared sense of loss which fuels the motivation and commitment of linguists, community groups, and support organizations in many parts of the world.

No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.