Life is something we are fond of, and death is something we dislike. Things we are fond of bring happiness, and things we dislike bring sorrow. Only when sorrow and happiness do not lose their proper bounds is man able to combine his strength with the nature of Heaven and Earth, and thus to endure for a long time.

His sorrow was written all over his face.

We have overcome the first obstacle with sorrow and distress.

When you are cheerful, books can increase your happiness; when you are sad, books can lessen your sorrow.

Two in distress make sorrow less.

We all felt great sorrow for him.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Optimism is like the lamp of hope. Pessimism [or negativity] is like a drug of sorrow.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

His heart is filled with sorrow.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Love without sorrow cannot be.

Ups and downs must be expected; but even in the face of catastrophic loss and sorrow, I like to think that at bottom I can't not be all right: I read the lines as they were written.

On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?

The president's death caused great sorrow.

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

Conscience is sorrow. Intelligence is deception. Only on the outskirts of life can one plant a little illusion.

Tom tried to forget his love sorrow by playing the piano.

With God's help, we will know sorrow no more.

Tom's heart was filled with sorrow.

His face expresses deep sorrow and repentance.

The happiness and sorrow of others is happiness and sorrow of our own.

The loss of his mother brought him sorrow and regret.

As long as we're together, all the sorrow is nothing but an occasion to become closer.

He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him.

My little Vasilissa, my dear daughter, listen to what I say, remember well my last words and fail not to carry out my wishes. I am dying, and with my blessing, I leave to thee this little doll. It is very precious for there is no other like it in the whole world. Carry it always about with thee in thy pocket and never show it to anyone. When evil threatens thee or sorrow befalls thee, go into a corner, take it from thy pocket and give it something to eat and drink. It will eat and drink a little, and then thou mayest tell it thy trouble and ask its advice, and it will tell thee how to act in thy time of need.

Little Vasilissa grieved greatly for her mother, and her sorrow was so deep that when the dark night came, she lay in her bed and wept and did not sleep.

There, my little doll, take it. Eat a little and listen to my sorrow. I must go to the hut of the old Baba Yaga in the dark forest to borrow some fire and I fear she will eat me. Tell me! What shall I do?

I share your sorrow.

In the evening they came to a large forest, and they were so weary with sorrow and hunger and the long walk, that they lay down in a hollow tree and fell asleep.

Banish this sorrow from your heart!

Not without sorrow shalt thou twice speak words so dire.

In the Lithuanian township of Veisiejai, he was present at the death of a little girl. A raging fever consumed her. The unhappy mother almost went crazy with sorrow. For months afterwards he would hear her continual tears and wailing. He decided to leave general practice and to specialize as an oculist.

Fadil expressed sorrow.

In the end, you see, sorrow is like a tapeworm: what you have to do is to get it out of your body.

We never experience our lives more intensely than in great love and deep sorrow.

The cattle were heard lowing most lamentably, several of them were seen wandering and running about in disorder and the shepherds believed that these were lamentations and marks of sorrow for their departed master.

Ah! Chloe, are you also suffering, do you still remember these plains, the Nymphs and me, or do the goats and sheep, your fellow captives, serve to console you in your sorrow?

After this explosion of sorrow, he became more collected, and resolved to take courage.

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.

He hides his sorrow behind a smile.

It was the sob of a woman, the muffled, strangling gasp of one who is torn by an uncontrollable sorrow.

"Now, to ease thy woes, / since sorrow for his sake hath dimmed thine eyes, / more will I tell, and hidden fates disclose. / He in Italia long shall battle with his foes, / and crush fierce tribes, and milder ways ordain, / and cities build and wield the Latin sway, / till the third summer shall have seen him reign, / and three long winter-seasons passed away / since fierce Rutulia did his arms obey."

"Troy once more / shakes off her ten years' sorrow. Open stand / the gates. With joy to the abandoned shore, / the places bare of foes, the Dorian lines we pour."

Then she addressed me thus, and comforted my care. / "What boots this idle passion? Why so fain / sweet husband, thus to sorrow and repine?"

War is accompanied by wretchedness and sorrow.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Weeping she spake, with unavailing woe, / and poured her sorrow to the winds, when lo, / in sight comes Helenus, with fair array, / and hails his friends, and hastening to bestow / glad welcome, toward his palace leads the way; / but tears and broken words his mingled thoughts betray.

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