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Sadness in sentence

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It's a valuable awareness of impermanence, both a kind of gentle, transient sadness as things pass by in life, but also a deeper, softly lingering sadness about the impermanence of all reality.
Hurt, sadness and anger flooded through me.
In its simplest terms, sadness is often thought of as the natural reaction to a difficult situation.
But your assumption that sadness has an external cause outside the self is a relatively new idea.
Ancient Greek doctors didn't view sadness that way.
Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
Even though we now know much more about the systems that govern the human body, these Greek ideas about sadness resonate with current views, not on the sadness we all occasionally feel, but on clinical depression.
There's also a long tradition of attempting to discern the value of sadness, and in that discussion, you'll find a strong argument that sadness is not only an inevitable part of life but an essential one.
Robert Burton, born in 1577, spent his life studying the causes and experience of sadness.
To understand the sadness of the trees losing their leaves in the fall is to more fully understand the cycle of life that brings flowers in the spring.
Does sadness have value on a more basic, tangible, maybe even evolutionary level?
Perhaps sadness helped generate the unity we needed to survive, but many have wondered whether the suffering felt by others is anything like the suffering we experience ourselves.
Some contemporary thinkers aren't interested in sadness' subjectivity versus universality, and would rather use technology to eliminate suffering in all its forms.
But is there something sad about a world without sadness?
In fact, the only things about sadness that seem universally agreed upon are that it has been felt by most people throughout time, and that for thousands of years, one of the best ways we have to deal with this difficult emotion is to articulate it, to try to express what feels inexpressable.
Getting a bad grade, losing a job, having an argument, even a rainy day can bring on feelings of sadness.
Comparing what they're experiencing to normal, temporary feelings of sadness can make them feel guilty for struggling.
And according to Ekman, anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise are equally recognizable.
Consciousness is the ability to feel things, to feel joy and sadness and boredom and pain and so forth.
But it's one thing to know that; it was a very different experience to actually live with the sadness and uncertainty of a serious illness.
Instead, we learned to accept both joy and sadness at the same time; to uncover beauty and purpose both despite and because we are all born and we all die.
And for all the sadness and sleepless nights, it turns out there is joy.
In fact, you can see the existential sadness in their eyes.
While this word often conjures up emotions of sadness and anger and fear, I bring you good news from the front lines of cancer research.
It invokes feelings of nostalgia, happiness, sadness, falling in love.
How do I get beyond the bitterness and the sadness and the lethargy and watching an inordinate amount of television as I eat ice cream?
Now, with any Alzheimer's, dementia, there's a certain amount of frustration and sadness for everyone involved.
PA: Yeah, we realized many of our artist and organizer friends were also lost in these cycles of sadness, and we were in movements that often found themselves at funerals.
And that to pursue one realm to the disregard of the other, is to open oneself to ultimate sadness in older age.
He spoke with immense sadness in his voice, saying maybe he should have spent more time with his children, and their children in turn.
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