Quotes About Sorrow

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Death is a master from Germany.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

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

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

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.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Death is dancing me ragged.

Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.