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Quotes About Sorrow

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
~ Pablo Neruda
Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.
~ Jennifer Weiner
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.
~ Countee Cullen
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love provided me with a tongue and tears.
~ Khalil Gibran
Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
~ William Shakespeare
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
~ Lord Byron
I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
~ Maurice Sendak
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
~ Michael Milken
If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.
~ Paul of the Cross
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
~ Harry Allen Overstreet
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
~ Albert Camus
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
~ Samuel Butler
in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.
~ W. D. Snodgrass
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
~ Walter Pater
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.
~ Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
~ John Lennon
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.
~ Khalil Gibran
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
~ Marilyn Monroe
In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
~ Pablo Neruda
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
~ Bob Dylan