“But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.”
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“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
“There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.”
Richard Hovey (1864–1900) American writer
Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)
“Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
“He that never had sorrow of love never had joy of it either!”
Gottfried von Straßburg book Tristan
Swem nie von liebe leit geschach,
dem geschach ouch liep von liebe nie.
Source: Tristan, Line 204
George du Maurier book Trilby
Trilby (1894). Compare:
:PEU DE CHOSE
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!
La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!
::Léon de Montenaeken; translated by Louise Chandler Moulton as:
:Ah, brief is Life,
Love’s short sweet way,
With dreamings rife,
And then—Good-day!
And Life is vain—
Hope’s vague delight,
Grief’s transient pain,
And then—Good-night.
“Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.”
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor book Incredibly Alice
Source: Incredibly Alice
“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories