Long before Ruben Östlund’s dark comedy Triangle of Sadness debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival — where it won the prestigious Palme d’Or — it was obvious who’d wind up as the breakout character.

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Neighbors said a pall had fallen over the wealthy Los Angeles area where Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed ...

Sadness really is that bitch. Imagine if your whole deal—your job, even—was to cry the second anything became too overwhelming. I mean, that is my deal—and what I currently do at my job—but it is not ...

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 ...