Charles Krauthammer

When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.

American Journalist

Erik Spoelstra

I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It's not a panic attack, but there's anxiety. I'm inconsolable. I'm a train wreck. I'm being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.

American Coach

Shelby Steele

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own best energies and talents.

American Author

Adam Scott

I love hearing about bad behavior. It's just so funny to me. Especially, grown ups acting like weird, inconsolable babies over really stupid things, to me, is really funny.

American Actor

Nicolas Roeg

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

English Director

Sydney J. Harris

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Cathleen Schine

Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

Used to describe a profound feeling of sadness that cannot be eased quickly or easily.

Deep Sadness

More intense than just being sad, it's used when someone is deeply affected by a situation.

Not Just Sad

Often used with words like 'grief,' 'loss,' or 'crying' to emphasize the depth of emotion.

Common Collocations

 i know what happened after this one was snapped the sheep had just been killed by a speeding taxi when the photographer came upon the scene and found the little boy inconsolable the taxi long gone when readers saw the photo in the magazine they raised thousands of dollars the family sheep were replaced a water pump was installed in their

Capturing the Year in an...

 that's ancient and universal and enormously powerful and, strangely, these days overlooked. The author C.S. Lewis called this state of mind "the inconsolable longing for we know not what." And he was mesmerized by it all his life.

The Hidden Power of Sad...

 he was inconsolable what about my friends we tried to reassure him he said you'll be back you'll have us and you'll make new friends he knew we were going for two years he looked at us and said

Inconsolable