Sorrows

Examples

• Consoling her, my own sorrows were assuaged; my sincerity won her entire conviction. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She often, in her brief life, shed tears, she had frequent sorrows; she smiled between, gladdening whatever saw her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Some pitying hand may find it there, when I and my sorrows are dust. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He'd ha' cried out for his own sorrows, next. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I knows his ways, and Em'ly's, and I knows their sorrows, and can be a comfort to 'em, some odd times, and labour for 'em allus! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Neither will you find him measuring all human interests, and joys, and sorrows, with his one poor little inch-rule now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her sorrows were known to man; her virtues to God. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Those who came from earth wept at the remembrance of their sorrows, but the spirits from above spoke of glorious sights and heavenly bliss. Plato. The Republic.
• Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I reckon, my dinner hour stretches all o'er the day; yo're pretty sure of finding me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We rejoice in their pleasures, and grieve for their sorrows, merely from the force of sympathy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Your mourning Man of Sorrows is entirely opposed to our joyous Apollo, your gloomy views of life to our serenity of temperament. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• For you're a “regular pity the sorrows”, you know--if you DO know any Christian rhyme--“whose trembling limbs have borne him to”--et cetrer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We shall cheer her sorrows, said Prince John, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed, is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I endeavoured to quiet the sorrows of my aching heart, by even now taking an interest in what in my youth I had ardently longed to see. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I, and only I, knew your heart and its sorrows; yet to what did it influence me? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This book had a far different effect upon me from the _Sorrows of Werter_. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I was alone with her, when her forlorn young head drooped gently on one side, and all her earthly wrongs and sorrows ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• What now the value of burdening my friends with my added personal sorrows--they had shared quite enough of them with me in the past. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But the inevitable consequence is that he who begins by weeping at the sorrows of others, will end by weeping at his own. Plato. The Republic.
• Goethe wrote The Sorrows of Werther in order to get rid of his own. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Her heart was hardened against the belief of Mrs. Jennings's entering into her sorrows with any compassion. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun, said Mrs. March. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The merriment of the hour was an unholy mockery of the sorrows of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr Lammle bestows a by no means loving look upon the partner of his joys and sorrows, and he mutters something; but checks himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If I showed any trace of what I felt, my own sorrows were sufficient to account for it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But it was all a dream: no Eve soothed my sorrows, or shared my thoughts; I was alone. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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