earthly sorrows

A life in which I trust she will find, despite its continuation of earthly sorrows, some great joys too, unknown to those who merely breathe.

If good enough to profit by Jesus' cup of earthly sorrows, God will sustain us under these sorrows.

But she was beautiful enough to her little dog, who cowered under her dress, frightened, when she went upon the scaffold, and who lay down beside her headless body when all her earthly sorrows were over.

This year's Cannes International Film Festival showed several tales of earthly spirits bearing earthly sorrows - lost souls leading the half-lives of those who never learned how to inhabit their own houses or jobs or marriages or even skin.