Definition of Sorrowful

Sorrowful

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.

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Sorrowful Quotations

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Franz Liszt

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Franz Liszt

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
Hjalmar Schacht

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade

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Sorrowful Translations

sorrowful in Italian is afflitto, disgraziato
sorrowful in Spanish is afligido, desastrado, pesaroso
sorrowful in Swedish is sorgsen

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