HardAbstract
"I am the price you pay for love. The greater the love, the heavier I am. I am not an illness yet I can break the strongest person. What am I?"
Answer
Grief
Explanation
Grief is experienced in proportion to the love felt for what was lost. It is not a disease but it can be utterly debilitating. It is the emotional cost of having loved deeply.
This is a hard riddle in the Abstract category — Riddles about ideas, emotions, and intangible things.
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