Sentence examples for existential sorrow from inspiring English sources
Wagner's gravelly tones can recall Cat Stevens, yet the gravitas of his timbre - often speaking rather than singing - augments the existential sorrow of The Rise and Fall of the Letter P ("How long is the right to suffer?/ And nothing impresses me").
She talks about her own arousal, about her body, her desire, about her longing and her existential sorrow.
Don Shewey of Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "If the surface of this opera is cluttered with cheap gags and musical mishmash, its soul is located in profound existential sorrow.
There is so much loss around dementia, so much sorrow; an existential scariness and an infinite strangeness.
I'd felt acutely that there was no excuse for it under the circumstances, despite perennial existential crises, the forgotten sorrows of a distant childhood, slight wrongs done to people now dead, the truth that I am not Tolstoy, the absence in this world of perfect love, and those impulses of greed and uncharitableness which lie too close to the heart — that sort of thing.
Post-discovery of his roommate and ex's affair, Drew's now drowning his sorrows in the existential words of Sartre's Nausea.
Shame is a feeling that we are causing by our own false beliefs, but loneliness, heartbreak, grief, sadness, sorrow or helplessness over others are existential feelings -- feelings that are a natural result of life.
Existential crises stemming from our own regret or guilt cannot suppress or obscure the indignation, grief, rage or sorrow of those targeted by injustices.
Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, grief, and sorrow.
Existential compromises fascinated Crane.
