Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.