Sorrow Phrases

Phrases

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• A world of pain
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• Better safe than sorry
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Come to grief
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Drown your sorrows
• Feeling no pain
• Good grief
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing
• How sad is that?
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• It's a Heartache (Bonnie Tyler song)
• Life is but a vale of tears
• Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
• Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan song)
• Marry in haste, repent at leisure
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• More in sorrow than in anger
• Mourning Becomes Electra (play by Eugene O'Neill)
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• My heart bleeds
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• No pain, no gain
• On pain of death
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Parting is such sweet sorrow
• Sad sack
• Sad state of affairs
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Sorry sight
• Tear jerker
• Tear limb from limb
• Tear off a strip
• Tear to ribbons
• Tear your hair out
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions