Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sorrow
Youth’s sorrows, like April showers, are transitory.
—Anonymous
Sorrow for a husband is like pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
—Anonymous
Sorrowful as death.
—Ouida
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp’d,
Doth burn the heart to cinders.
—William Shakespeare
Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,
Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes;
Then little strength rings out the doleful knell.
—William Shakespeare
Sorrow, like cloud that flies,
Like a cloud in clearing skies,
Passed away.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne