This season is an absolute bully in its demand for good cheer. But there ought to be room as well for some sadness.

Grief is a cacophony of unpleasant emotions: pain, regret, guilt, remorse, fear, anxiety, all waxing and waning at will. But beneath them all, all the time, is the melancholy oboe that is sadness.

"Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than it is to laughter." —Victor Hugo, "Hernani" We often retreat from love when it unconsciously arouses painful feelings of sadness. This is not the kind of ...

You may not particularly enjoy feeling sad. You may prefer experiencing other emotions. But if you try to avoid the emotion all together, mental health professionals want you to know not to. People ...

Feeling blue? When sadness strikes, simply imagining it as a person can make the emotion feel less intense, a recent study has found. The authors were inspired by the movie "Inside Out," Pixar's 2015 ...

When you're overcoming sadness, quotes like these can really turn things around. You may think that there's no way out from your grief or no light at the end of the tunnel of your depression — but it ...

Thomas Jefferson defended the right to pursue happiness in the Declaration of Independence. But that’s so 237 years ago. Many modern societies champion everyone’s right to be happy pretty much all the ...

Is it possible to create a work of pure joy – one entirely free from any trace of trouble or sadness? Henri Matisse believed it might be. “What I dream of,” the pioneering modernist painter explained ...

Making eat-the-rich comedy Triangle of Sadness, with a gross-out scene that rivals Farrelly Brothers movies, was simple for Swedish director Ruben Östlund. “I wanted to create a roller-coaster ride ...