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

Tertz writes with a heavy undercurrent of Jewish Weltschmerz, Sinyavsky with a gentle wit reflecting his Russian Orthodox background.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to the diseases which reflection breeds, still further reflection can oppose effective remedies; and it is of the melancholy and Weltschmerz bred of reflection that I now proceed to speak.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William