Through all the brilliant contrivance and literary panache comes a profound sadness, looking with tenderness at peculiar humans.
Our schizoid reactions to firsts reflect the wallop of simultaneously experiencing happiness and sadness, looking out the front window with an eye on the rear-view mirror.
When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty café were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.
I suffer from depression, so, unfortunately, no matter how I try to hide it, my children know all about what sadness looks like.
I feel the joy of an adventurous Saturday with my father and no school, and I feel the sadness of looking back when it is all gone.
Swift regularly addresses the fans directly, welcoming them as her friends and discussing subjects which are relevant and personal to her audience; loneliness, unpopularity, the unpredictability of love, the sadness of looking at social media and seeing "the highlight reel of other people's lives and the behind the scenes of our own".
"In that moment, I felt as though I could do anything so I asked him, in front of his friends: 'What's this sadness?' He looked alarmed, but I put my hand on his shoulder and continued, 'Whatever it is, you can let it go now.' And he said, 'Oh can I?' And I thought, 'Oh!
Interestingly, these were sometimes confused with sadness, presumably looking similar to outbursts of grief.
I started to take the pictures of myself crying as a way of putting myself outside of the situation of sadness and looking at myself from the point of view of an observer.
On the left, I listed my yearning for Peter, my sadness at looking at his picture, my memories of our life together, my sorrow at not having a partner with whom to laugh, my loneliness, my lack of a husband to help when my meniscus is torn (damn!), and my empty and slightly hamstrung heart.
