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Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt or frustration.

Sadnesses of the body

  • Mirror sadness
  • Sadness of looking like or unlike one’s parents
  • Sadness of not knowing if your body is normal
  • Sadness of knowing that your body is not normal
  • Beauty sadness
  • Sadness of makeup
  • Sadness of physical pain
  • Pins-and-needles sadness
  • Sadness of clothes
  • Sadness of the quavering eyelid
  • Sadness of a missing rib
  • Noticeable sadness
  • Sadness of going unnoticed
  • The sadness of having genitals that are not like those of your lover
  • The sadness of having genitals that are like those of your lover
  • Sadness of hands

Sadnesses of the covenant

  • Sadness of God’s love
  • Sadness of God’s back
  • Favorite-child sadness
  • Sadness of being sad in front of one’s God
  • Sadness of the opposite of belief
  • Sadness of God alone in heaven
  • Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to him

Sadnesses of the intellect

  • Sadness of being misunderstood
  • Humor sadness
  • Sadness of love without release
  • Sadness of being smart
  • Sadness of not knowing enough words to express what you mean
  • Sadness of having options
  • Sadness of wanting sadness
  • Sadness of confusion
  • Sadness of domesticated birds
  • Sadness of finishing a book
  • Sadness of remembering
  • Sadness of forgetting
  • Anxiety sadness

Interpersonal sadnesses

  • Sadness of being sad in front of one’s parent
  • Sadness of false love
  • Sadness of love
  • Friendship sadness
  • Sadness of a bad conversation
  • Sadness of the could-have-been
  • Secret sadness

Sadnesses of sex and art

  • Sadness of arousal of being an unordinary phsyical state
  • Sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things
  • Kissing sadness
  • Sadness of moving too quickly
  • Sadness of not moving
  • Nude model sadness
  • Sadness of portraiture