You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your…

“No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.”

— The Dragon King of Beijing

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

— Sharon Creech

“You cannot stop the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.”

— R.G.H. Siu

“Martin Luther supposedly said, “You might not be able to stop the birds from landing on your head, but you can keep them from…

— Mike Bechtle

“Just as we cannot stop the birds flying off and upwards at our approach, so there is no way of preventing the acts which…

— Philip Thody

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. —Chinese…

— James Powell

“A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests…

— Anne Bryan Smollin

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

— Chinese Proverbs

“Birds of sorrow may fly over our heads, But we must prevent them from building their nests, For they can cause pain that is…

— Nadine Sadaka Boulos

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

— Antonio Porchia

“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.”

— Margaret Atwood

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not…

— Edward Hirsch

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will…

— Brian Morton