But Wilde might have been content to stay there, savoring his joys and sorrows.

NEWYORKER: Deceptive Picture

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 Germany duly awaited a flood of novels dealing with the joys and sorrows of the reunion of East and West.

BBC: Post-unification novel divides Germany

It is a concept album, each piece is a progression through the innocence and playfulness of youth, the joys and sorrows of life as one gets older, spiritual awakening and finally death.

CNN: The Internet was my music teacher

And they also know that I'm going to be open and honest with them about the highs, the lows, the joys, the sorrows, but they also know that it all ends in praise, and that at the end of the day I have to go through this, we have to go through this in order to make us better, and in order to get to the next level.

NPR: Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'

Nobody in the West is brought up any more with this love of life and acceptance of its sorrows as well as an ability to experience its joys so deeply.

ECONOMIST: Memoirs