sadness

whale

dad joke

ghost

death

ephemerality

Japan

Japanese (language)

momento mori

pathos

samurai

Japanese culture

transience

untranslatable word

pick-up line

happiness

symptom

cynicism

feminism

body piercing

working out

depression

existentialism

void

listening to music

Sarah McLachlan

complete mess

anger

rage

women

is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is also a kind of defense. Ivo Andric

is inactive anger just as anger is active sadness. They are not two things.

Anger is active sadness... sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad' You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry... it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry. Rajneesh

is productive only of apathy, but when one gets angry one brings about change.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X

is that passion by which the mind passes to a lesser perfection (in contrast to joy by which it passes into a greater perfection).

We see, then, that the mind can undergo great changes, and pass now to a greater, now to a lesser perfection. These passions, indeed, explain to us the affects of Joy [laetitia] and Sadness [tristitia]. By Joy, therefore, I shall understand in what follows that passion by which the mind passes to a greater perfection. And by Sadness, that passion by which it passes to a lesser perfection.

is the shadow of some unknown other person falling on the ego.

Rather, Freud suggested that we should look for a special attachment to someone in the person's life lying behind these feelings. Sadness and worthlessness are the result of what he referred to, in a beautiful expression, as the shadow of this other person falling on the ego (SE XIV, 258). In contrast to the character in Inside Out, sadness is not about whether or not you cry, but why you cry in the first place.

is a result of crying, not the other way around. One does not cry because he is sad.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

sadness, n.All

sadness