(*) first conceptualised in list form by bliss

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
• favourite-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 being an unordinary physical 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
• sadness of pinchas t's only note paper, "to the dust; from man you came and to man you shall return," in which he argued it would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reverse

                    ― everything is illuminated, jonathan safran foer