Through this alchemy, grief moves us from sorrow for what we've lost to gratitude for what remains.
As "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" moves toward its violent, melodramatic and distressingly appropriate ending, readers may feel a Proustian nostalgia for the novel's lost time, a sadness that mirrors the melancholy that haunts Wang Qiyao and pervades the fascinating, mostly vanished longtang of Shanghai.
Even on mute, the tribute mattered: as the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, showed in 1997, communal sorrow is moving, public frenzy is alarming, but the two together make for irresistible television.
The journal can include pictures and morph into a scrapbook, or it can be the private meditations of a preteen on the hope and sorrow of moving to a new city and leaving old friends.
There was one last outing in the offing: "Happy hour next Tuesday to celebrate the good times, soak our sorrows, and move on!!" The Talmud has nothing to say about basketball, but it does include a word or two about the Sabbath.
At such moments, Adelia's sorrow is more moving than her outrage.
Each essay is a pleasure, but if "Regulating Sorrow" does not move you to reflect on profound personal loss then you have a cold, cold heart.
Moved by his sorrow, I wrote 10 pages of an outpouring entitled Friendship, very nearly echoing the lamentations of Adonais but in a flamboyant poetic prose.
During his subsequent recuperation there, Faramir met the Lady Éowyn of Rohan; moved by her sorrow, pride, and beauty, he eventually fell in love with her.
But it was impossible not to be moved by their stoical sorrow.
