Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
All sorrows are less with bread.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.
Sorrow can be a bully.
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
With your laugh my sorrows are relieved
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