52 Metaphors for sorrowing

But to Mary her sorrow and her tenderness were a voluptuous joy.

But I remember even so, that my sorrow was a kind of satisfaction to me, when I walked in the playground, while the boys were in school, and saw them glancing at me out of the windows, and because of my grief I felt distinguished, and of vast importance.

And then, when the scene is changed, and sorrow and care become our portion, the same who was our joy in prosperity will be our refuge in adversity; and "because thou hast made the Lord thy habitation, there shall no evil befall thee.

It was thus that his private sorrows were the means which Providence employed to transmit his precious thoughts and experiences to future ages, as the most valued inheritance he could bestow on posterity.

Sorrow is inspiratory; happiness, expiratory.

Yet transient would my sorrows be Should Delia first her breath resign; Sweet Maid!

Not Theophil onlynot young love, that, for all his smitten heart, has somewhere hidden away the potencies of his unspent life, and will still have his dream, though sorrow itself should become that dreambut this poor old mother, all the force of her days spent, the sap of her spirit dried up.

Sorrow, no doubt, for her husband's cruel usage, as well as the fatigue of wandering in the forest, was the cause of her illness.

Let's smile it away, Bring not a withered rose from yesterday; Flowers are so fresh from the wayside and wood, Sorrows are blessings but half understood.

Their only sorrow was the shortness of the time.

Mortalis nemo est quem non attingat dolor, morbusve, as Tully determines out of an old poem, no mortal men can avoid sorrow and sickness, and sorrow is an inseparable companion from melancholy.

The scene opens with him at his midnight studieshis lamp is almost burned outand he has been searching for knowledge and has not found it, but only that Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.

That sorrow is the consequence Of former lives of sin, The spur that goads us on and up A nobler life to win?

" "Sorrow's an unwelcome guest, whether it comes expected, or without any previous knowledge.

The sorrow and grief of heart of one woman jealous of another, is heavier than death," Ecclus. xxviii.

We know which sorrow is the manliest, which appeals to our sympathy, but who can measure the depth of John Norton's suffering?

Not only our joys, but our sorrows also, are intimations and suggestions of experiences in the infinite heart of the Eternal.

"For when my love's eyes do thine, do thine, And when her lips smile so rare, The day it is jocund and fine, so fine, Though let it be wet or be fair And when the stout ale is all flowing so fast, Our sorrows and troubles are things of the past.

The sorrow which overtook Antony and Octavius at the death of Brutus, has been the general experience of brave men.

Yes, but there are sorrows, Edoardo, which sadly wear away our life; but these sorrows are a need, a duty, and to forget them is a crime.

"Ravenel," she said at length, "I cannot go on any longer without telling you that my great sorrow in life has been the wrong I did you.

But her sorrow was the chief of his, and what stung him now to impotent anger was that she must suffer and he be unable to help herfor, ah, how willingly, how gladly, he would have borne all poor Peggy's woes upon his own broad shoulders.

Sorrow is a great purifier, and you will come out all the better for your trial.

that his sorrow was continually before him, ver. 17; and Ps. cxvi.

'It proved as he had foretold; he next day went into the country, made his will, sickened, and died April the 16th, 1711, leaving his Corinna the bequest of six-hundred pounds; and adds she, 'Sorrow has been my food ever since.

52 Metaphors for  sorrowing