Mary Oliver Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.

  Mary Oliver

  Character, Worry, Shining

• And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Thoughtful, Ideas

• Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Growing Up, Play

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