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Quotes About Sorrow

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
~ William Butler Yeats
Death is not the worst sorrow.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
~ Emile M. Cioran
Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
~ George Herbert
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
~ Guru Nanak
Death strips all men of dignity.
~ Tobsha Learner
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
~ Victor Hugo
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
~ William Davenant
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
~ William Shakespeare
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
~ William Shakespeare
And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
~ Unknown
I am dying Egypt dying.
~ William Shakespeare
Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
~ Auliq Ice
There was no hope in death, only an end.
~ Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring
...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...
~ Munia Khan
Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief.
~ Carol Cassella, Oxygen
Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.
~ Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
~ Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er her, beloved for years?Who shall say the dark dismayWhich her dying caused that day?
~ Christina Rossetti
And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.
~ Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.
~ Unknown
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
~ Christopher Pike, Phantom