Sentence examples for less sorrow from inspiring English sources

"Less trial would mean less victory; less sorrow would mean less joy; less struggle would mean a smaller nature," he wrote.

But knowing where he was going — he said he was expecting to move to the West Ledge Healthcare Facility in Peekskill — did not mean parting from Taylor provoked any less sorrow.

So, the enlightened Buddha says, fewer desires bring less sorrow!

But what distinguishes both the movie and this respectful adaptation is less the sorrow of the haunting true story than the spirit of forgiveness and tolerance that infuses it.

Yet how could either Lady Warbones, or Miss Lucy Sweetface, or the stranger in the hall, begin to apprehend that dim roiling in the western sky, even now beginning to hush the birdsong in the brambles, and which presaged a turn of Fate that, had they but gained forewarning, might have rendered less the pitiful sorrows soon to befall them?

"We went from joy to sorrow in less than 24 hours," he said.

Ms. Harris carries Appalachian simplicity into less certain times when sorrow is guaranteed but redemption is not.

Still, profound joy and tenderness are no less valid emotions than sorrow.

"Over time, I found that pain visited less frequently and when sorrow washed through me, it wasn't as deep or intense as it had once been.

That first rush of empathy and understanding hit Jennie so hard that, while walking across a park, she felt sorrow for anyone less fortunate than her: her mother, her confused father, her brother struggling to stay out of jail.

There is plenty of material for tragedy here, yet the impression given by the film is less one of suffering and sorrow than one of sheer implacability, and we are left, as it were, with a caution: never bank on any hero for long, because Everest will glance at human beings, with their baggage of presumption, and dust them off like crumbs.