Cosmic Sorrow Quotes

Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.