"Weltschmerz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... modern, careless of fame and scornful of his time? Could it be possible that in the eleventh century, so far away as Khorassan, so accomplished a man of letters lived, with such distinction, such breadth, such insight, such calm disillusion, such cheerful and jocund despair? Was this Weltschmerz, which we thought a malady of our day, endemic in Persia in 1100? My doubt lasted only till I came upon a literal translation of the Rubaiyat, and I saw that not the least remarkable quality of Fitzgerald's was its fidelity to the original. ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... Actor, "the psychology. To make Hamlet understood, I want to show him as a man bowed down by a great burden. He is overwhelmed with Weltschmerz. He carries in him the whole weight of the Zeitgeist; in fact, everlasting ...
— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock
... inspiration; on love and poetry; on Alice Meynell; on Viola Meynell; on the poet's body; expression; grief; habitat; loneliness; morals; youth Thomson, James, Thomson, James (B.V.), his atheism; on Mrs. Browning; on inspiration; on pessimistic poetry; on Platonic love; on Shelley; on Tasso; on Weltschmerz Timrod, Henry, Tolstoi, Count Leo, Towne, Charles Hanson, ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... same age is often an unreliable, even dangerous witness. This is almost always the case when the girl is in some degree talented, impulsive, dreamy, romantic, and adventurous,—she expresses a sort of weltschmerz connected with ennui. This comes early, and if a girl of that age is herself drawn into the circle of the events in question, we are never safe from extreme exaggeration. The merest larceny becomes ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... and subtle as in many instances are the thoughts which these words embody, there are deeper thoughts struggling in the bosom of a people, who have devised for themselves such words as the following: 'gemueth,' 'heimweh,' 'innigkeit,' 'sehnsucht,' 'tiefsinn,' 'sittsamkeit,' 'verhaengniss,' 'weltschmerz,' 'zucht'; all these being German words which, in a similar manner, partially or wholly fail to find their equivalents ...
— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench |
