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“Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.”

World Heart Dies This World Sorrow Losing Live Life

Book:Works

Source: Works

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”

Ifs Men May Doe Stories Song Fall Born Team Hero Sorrow Losing Glory Strive Falling In Love Leaving Defeat Sweetest Saddest Triumphant

Book:The Boys of Summer

Source: The Boys of Summer

“Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!”

“She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.”

Way Mind Has Beens Moments Strong Emotion Clear Sorrow Losing Relief Flats Hopeless That Moment Another Way Numb Hallucinations Losing Her

Author:Michael Cunningham

“Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?”

Pain Mother Night Lost Tears Sorrow Losing Delight Motherhood Woe Payment Babe Infancy

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”

Men Long Enough Feelings Lost Friendship Materials Sorrow Losing My Friends Attachment Material Things Lost Friend

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

Soul Self Light Joy Spirit Stars Born Darkness Sun Mines Return Sorrow Moon Losing My Soul Soulmate

Author:e. e. cummings

“There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.”

Care Lasts Given Fear Sorrow Losing Accounts Guilt Burden Riches Temptation Get Rich

Book:The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition