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Quotes About Sorrow

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
~ Sappho
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
~ Rumi
Whatever path you follow push on till tomorrow, Love all, Serve all, and Create no sorrow.
~ Trevor Hall
These words are razors to my wounded heart.
~ William Shakespeare
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
~ J. K. Rowling
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.
~ Laini Taylor
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
~ Izumi Shikibu
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
~ Ville Valo
I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
~ Khalil Gibran
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
~ Nina Simone
Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.
~ Elif Safak
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
~ Jean Cocteau
I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.
~ Jake Miller
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
~ Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
Intense love always leads to mourning.
~ Louise Gluck
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.
~ Osamu Dazai
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
~ Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow