Phrase thesaurus
Sorrow Phrases
49 phrases and expressions related to "sorrow".
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