Difference between Sorrowful and Heartbreaking

SORROWFUL vs HEARTBREAKING: NOUN

Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. : sad.
Causing sorrow.
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Bittersweet, Poignant, Tragic, Distressing, Shocking, Sad, Disheartening, Disrupting, Shattering, Touching, Upsetting, Harrowing, Grievous, Sorrowful, Heartrending

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Bittersweet, Poignant, Tragic, Distressing, Shocking, Sad, Disheartening, Disrupting, Shattering, Touching, Upsetting, Harrowing, Grievous, Sorrowful, Heartrending

It was so sorrowful that my eyes teared up.
John the Divine are not so sorrowful as yesterday.
When he spoke his voice was resigned and sorrowful.
Patrons modulate dollar from sorrowful walk of American drugs.
He would always look like a sorrowful white boy.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
To this sorrowful appeal Moses answers with encouragement.
Francis Hospital, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Rev.
It is sorrowful only for those left behind.
Parting is sorrowful but to choose the other over God is more sorrowful and has eternal consequences.

Chrissy Teigen describes losing baby in heartbreaking detail.
The book is equal parts heartbreaking and warming.
With an intense, heartbreaking focus on his family.
The final twists are heartbreaking and a surprise.
Their answers are heartbreaking: "Girls should be perfect.".
The season finale was funny, exciting, and heartbreaking.
Gosh it was a shocker and so heartbreaking!
The loss of a child is absolutely heartbreaking.
The thought of divorce was heartbreaking for me.
Jim Carrey's ex-girlfriend's suicide note had a heartbreaking plea to the actor Wonderwall 22 hrs ago By Mark Gray Heartbreaking last words.