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The only loss is death.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.
— Robin McKinley
Time blunts the pain and creates a mist over one's memory - at least in the case of death and sorrow. Other types of pain linger longer.
— Melanie Dickerson
Misery is only better than death because you can rise from it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame. — Lisa Schroeder
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame. — Lisa Schroeder
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
— V.S. Naipaul
I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.
— Cormac McCarthy
Some are born for peace and joy
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow — Stevie Smith
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow — Stevie Smith
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
— Ralph Nader
There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.
— Cate Tiernan
Like young fern shoots
my child's fingers curled.
I did not expect,
in the fifth month, frost. — Lian Hearn
my child's fingers curled.
I did not expect,
in the fifth month, frost. — Lian Hearn
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
— Tony Hillerman
We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together.
— Sandra Dallas
The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
— Richard Bach
The only balm to sorrow is memory; the only salve for the pain of losing someone to death is acknowledging the life that existed before.
— Nina Sankovitch
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
— Pearl S. Buck
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
— David Hume
Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow. — Charlotte Bronte
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow. — Charlotte Bronte
Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears. — William Shakespeare
And therefore I forbid my tears. — William Shakespeare
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
— John Strachan
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
— Wilfred Owen
The bitterness of sorrow is better than the venom of death.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
His absence is so big it's like he's there.
— Patrick Ness
The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.
— David Anthony Durham
Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
— Seneca The Younger
Death is not the worst sorrow.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
— Cynthia Ozick
She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.
— Taheyya Kariokka
Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound. — Death Cab For Cutie
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound. — Death Cab For Cutie
May this be your final sorrow.
— Anita Amirrezvani
Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.
— Dianna Hardy
Thou hast become dark and cannot hear me. When I die shall I not be like Enkidu? Sorrow enters my heart. I am afraid of death.
— Anonymous
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
— Sadegh Hedayat
Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow. — Countee Cullen
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow. — Countee Cullen
Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.
— Shannon L. Alder
The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is an illusion
— ShinigamiGew
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
— Giordano Bruno
Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time.
— Sandra Toscano Huerta
Life is an isle of sorrow, you live today and die tomorrow!
— Tove Jansson
Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.
— Philippe Aries
Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
— George W. Bush
Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.
— Alexandre Dumas
We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.
— Cristiane Serruya
Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— David Berg