Weltschmerz

Example Sentences

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It’s a sure cure for any lingering Weltschmerz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

This is even more surprising, given that what the German novelist Jean Paul christened Weltschmerz has seemingly been in steady decline for the last 10 years.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2016

The crass Buck is less interested in discussing Tony’s sudden bout of Weltschmerz than he is in ushering him off to the Japanese restaurant where their dates await.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2011

London was full of Weltschmerz and fashionable reliance on canned Freud and Frazer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nobody so well as he has understood all human passions, all emotions—hilarious joy, deep-seated satisfaction, fear, grief, and Weltschmerz with such mastery, and known how to represent them in the smallest possible space.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther