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Everything has its price: sorrow for happiness; birth for love; death for birth. — Mikhail Shishkin

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

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

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

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

She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more. — Glen Cook

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

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

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death. — Sue Grafton

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

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

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen. — Shannon L. Alder

Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness — Mihai Eminescu

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

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. — Robin Hobb

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. — Criss Jami

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows. — David Berg