vale of tears

(this) vale of tears

Fig. the earth; mortal life on earth. (A vale is a literary word for valley.) When it comes time for me to leave this vale of tears, I hope I can leave some worthwhile memories behind. Uncle Fred left this vale of tears early this morning.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Brynne	BRIN	English (Rare)
Gruffudd	GRIF-idh	Welsh
Paraskevi	-	Greek
Zilpah	ZIL-pə (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Ville	VEEL-le (Finnish)	Finnish, Swedish
Prem	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali